A film at the Odeon Carlton always figured into a visit to Toronto and Colin Corbett’s playing into the James Bond themes was a treat. After listening to the Hilgreen-Lane pipe organ I would head down the street to the Royal York Hotel and try to coax theatre-organ sounds out of the 5-manual, 105-rank Casavant pipe organ in the Concert Hall. Sadly both of those organs are gone from Toronto now and the fools of Toronto are spending millions of dollars to build an opera house when they could have had the magnificent Odeon Carlton for a mere dollar!
A film at the Odeon Carlton always figured into a visit to Toronto and Colin Corbett’s playing into the James Bond themes was a treat. After listening to the Hilgreen-Lane pipe organ I would head down the street to the Royal York Hotel and try to coax theatre-organ sounds out of the 5-manual, 105-rank Casavant pipe organ in the Concert Hall. Sadly both of those organs are gone from Toronto now and the fools of Toronto are spending millions of dollars to build an opera house when they could have had the magnificent Odeon Carlton for a mere dollar!