Organ Concert

Screening of the silent film Frate Sole
Organ improvisations with commentary by Ferruccio Bartoletti (SP)

Frate Sole was filmed in 1918 directed by Mario Corsi and Ugo Falena, with Umberto Palmarini and Silvia Malinverni. The film represents the life of St. Francis through a succession of paintings inspired by Giotto's frescoes. The use of special effects, avant-garde for the time and still surprisingly suggestive today, the grandeur of the sets, the attention to the costumes and the number of extras ensure particularly spectacular results for the film. In order to give the silent images further expressive force, in the absence of a soundtrack, the extemporaneous creation of an improvised musical commentary on the organ is envisaged.