

The Institute´s disciples formed the choir. The season´s closing concert, Sunday, May 18, was directed by the Institute´s head, Valentino Miserachs Grau. The Institute plays more the figure of the "vox clamantis in deserto", the voice crying in the desert. Logic would say that its mark should be discernable in the universal Church´s liturgical celebrations. The Institute is the Holy See´s "conservatory" of liturgical music and has the job of forming Church musicians from around the world. Not only forgotten, but deliberately banished.

Why against the mainstream? Because Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina´s polyphony and Gregorian chant - the essential elements of the institute´s offerings - are noticeably absent in the liturgical practice of today´s Catholic Church. It is the explicit proposal of a musical concept that goes against the mainstream in the field of sacred and liturgical music. 17, 2002 was world-famous violinist Felix Ayo.īut above all it is an event for the Church. The Institute´s concert season is a first-class musical event: It´s enough to say that one musician at the opening concert Nov. ROMA - On Sunday, May 18, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music held its final concert of the 2002-2003 season in its beautiful hall at its academy just steps from Rome´s Piazza Navona. The heads of the Church are deaf, but in Rome there are some who resist and fight The future of the great sacred music is increasingly in danger. The Last Bastion at Rome´s Basilica of St. The film starts off with four men - having had enough of the uninspiring lives they each lead, decide to pack up all their possessions and travel to a place called 'The Last Bastion' - a kind of utopian theme park that promises eternal fulfilment.Polyphonic and Gregorian Chant. The result was the 1995 album 'This Film's Crap, Let's Slash The Seats'.” Instead, he decided to make imaginary soundtracks to the short films he carried around in his head.
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“I got the idea from David Holmes, one of my favourite film composers who, as an aspiring DJ at the time, desperately wanted to score movies but didn't know how to break through into that world. So last year he set about creating his own.
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I was always drawn to what the music was doing and I was fascinated by the guys who were the composers of the magic.”Īlthough Adam’s Lack of Afro productions are constantly in high demand with broadcasters and TV networks worldwide, (helping him cultivate a loyal fanbase through seven album releases and multiple remixes), he has yet to be offered that first film score. There is something magical about a great film score - it adds so much to the cinematic experience in every way imaginable. All my heroes were composers - guys like John Barry, John Williams & Thomas Newman and more recently David Holmes, Daniel Pemberton and Ludwig Goransson. "Long before all the Lack of Afro stuff took over, being a film composer was all I wanted to do. Having originally got into music with the idea of scoring for films, The Last Bastion sees Adam fulfilling something of a long-held ambition.
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Encompassing lush string and horn arrangements, the project will be released in three parts, with the full soundtrack coming out on limited edition, red vinyl this summer. Adam Gibbons, the artist & producer behind Lack of Afro and The Damn Straights, will this summer release The Last Bastion OST, a cinematic, funk & soul soundtrack to a film that has yet, and may never, be made.
