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Tenerife to stage film music festival

Sunday, July 1st, 2007
The island of Tenerife is hosting its first International Festival of Film Music in the capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife from July 9-15. The week-long event will be attended by a number of Hollywood and Spanish composers and will include two concerts by the recently-formed Tenerife Film Orchestra and Choir. The first will be in the island’s oldest theatre, the Teatro Guimerá on Saturday July 14 and will features works by Mychael Danna, Sean Callery and Angel Illarramendi. The festival will draw to a close the next day, Sunday, with a concert in the Auditorio de Tenerife, this time featuring scores by Diego Navarro and Don Davis. The programme for the first five days of the festival includes a series of conferences and discussions featuring the guest composers. More information on the event can be found on its website www.fimucite.com

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Cocker brings heart and soul to Auditorio

Friday, April 20th, 2007
British blues legend Joe Cocker will appear in concert in Tenerife on July 10 during his summer European tour. The Sheffield-born star, who will be 63 by the time of the concert, starts a mammoth Europe-wide tour in June that takes in Spain, Greece, Georgia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, France, Ireland, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Norway and Denmark – a punishing schedule of 34 venues in all in little over two months. He has two dates in the Canary Islands, at the Auditorio in Santa Cruz on July 10 and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, the following day. Cocker’s musical career, which spans over 40 years, kicked off when he had his first UK number one in November 1968, a cover version of the Beatles song With a Little Help from My Friends. He had a second UK hit with Delta Lady but the real ...

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Orchestra taking the trail to Texas

Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra is to tour Texas in the summer as part of a series of cultural exchanges between the Canary Islands and the Lone Star state. The tour will begin in Houston, Texas’s largest city, on June 28, moving on to historic San Antonio – scene of the famous Battle of the Alamo in 1836 – on June 30. San Antonio, now a city of over a million people, was founded in 1718 by settlers from the Canary Islands. Further concerts are scheduled for Fort Worth on July 2, Laredo on July 4 and Corpus Christi on July 6. Auditorio de Tenerife•The Auditorio de Tenerife, home of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. Over 100 musicians and technicians will make the journey from Tenerife for a programme of music that will be typically Spanish in flavour, featuring zarzuela, or light opera, and works by Granados and Falla. The ...

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