Sir, Bill Parkinson is right to lament the loss of the cinema organ and organist (letter, Mar 19), but the genre is not dead, for in Liverpool, at the Philharmonic Hall, there exists the last working Walterdaw cinema screen in the world which rises from the floor, and the organ console which rises independently. The resident organist, Dave Nicholas, performs regularly. The sight of the screen, complete with its proscenium and curtains, rising as the organ console descends is impressive even in the 21st century.
Scirard Lancelyn Green
Secretary, Liverpool Organists’ Association, Bebington, Wirral