Silent Movie with Film Concert: The King of Kings (1927)

The Terra Sancta Organ Festival is offering an experience that was common in the early days of cinematography, when films were silent and music was performed or improvised by a piano or organ to accompany the vision with a soundtrack: The Italian organist FAUSTO CAPORALI will accompany the screening of the film “THE KING OF KINGS” Protected content the American director Cecile DeMille with an improvised musical commentary on the organ.

This film is a masterpiece of film history and the American Film Institute has included it in its list of Top 10 Epic Films.

Fausto Caporali graduated in Protected content organ and organ composition at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan. He is the author of sacred cantatas, concertos and chamber music that have been highly praised by audiences and critics. He has worked with the Ottoni della Scala, the Coro Voci Bianche della Scala and soloists of La Scala. He regularly gives organ improvisation courses in Italy, works as a music critic for professional journals and is first organist at the organist at the Cremona Cathedral.

Admission is free. The film starts at 7 p.m., but we should go inside at least twenty minutes earlier - I have no idea, how many visitors will come...

Before this event starts DOWNTOWN GRAFFITI TOUR: Protected content - if you like.

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