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The Vatican organist gives the Christmas Concert on the Sol Mayor Organ in Marbella

The Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association and the Fuerte Foundation are organising a concert for next Friday the 21st of December at 9 p.m. to be given by the Italian organist Gianluca Libertucci in the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación in Marbella.

Libertucci is organist at the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican and is an extremely active concert performer at the most important organ venues in the world. He gave the inaugural concert on the new organ in the Governorate’s Chapel in the Vatican City before Pope Benedict XVI.

The aim of the Friends of the Sol Organ Association is to study the historical, technical and artistic aspects of the Sol Mayor Organ, as well as to collaborate with its restoration, conservation and improvement. In this way, their aim is to promote musical culture in the school environment and to give children a taste of what this instrument is like.

In the year 2006, the Fuerte Foundation, presided over by Isabel García Bardón, took over the restoration work on the organ at the Church of La Encarnación and put the organ expert Albert Blancafort in charge of recuperating all of its sound characteristics, which had been lost over the course of time.

A stylish end to the 50th anniversary year

The organ concert to be held next Friday the 21st of December will be the third one this year and will mark the culmination of a series of events and activities with which the El Fuerte Group has celebrated its 50th anniversary during the year 2007. To mark this “golden anniversary”, the hotel chain organised weekly cocktail parties in all of the group’s hotels, it threw a party on the 4th of July in the El Fuerte Hotel, inaugurated an exhibition of paintings in October and published a book about the history of Marbella and the group.

For more information, please visit the website www.fundacionfuerte.com