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The Marbella Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association is organising a concert of words and music entitled "The Four Elements"

The Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association will be putting on a concert of music and words entitled “The Four Elements” at 9.30 p.m. on the 11th of September in the Parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación. On this occasion, the event will feature a repertoire of images, poetry and music related to the themes of earth, wind, fire and water. Malaga Cathedral’s head organist Adalberto Martínez Solaesa will take to the keyboard to perform pieces like P. Morandi’s “Sonata da Chiesa” and Lefebure Wely’s “Bolero de Concierto”, in the company of poetry readers Estefanía Contreras, Jesús Botana and Cristina Ruiz.   

For the first time, this concert will feature a selection of poetry and images to accompany pieces like A.W. Ketelbey’s “Sanctuary of the Heart”, chosen to represent the element of earth, as well as A.E. Batiste’s “Marcha o Elevación” (March or Elevation) to allude to the element of water.  

Sol Mayor Organ

The Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association

The aim of the Friends of the Sol Organ Association is to study the historical, technical and artistic values of the Sol Mayor Organ, as well as to collaborate with its restoration, conservation and improvement. Amongst their many objectives is to raise interest in organ music amongst children and adults who are either unaware or hardly know about the marvellous instrument that they have in their city.

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.