ROME – “The music may be an inclined plane that elevates the soul towards the divine”. Inspired by the words of Benedict XVI, Daniele Maggiore, Artistic Director of the record label BAM Beyond Any Music, started the recording project Saints with a concert at Auditorium Seraphicum in Rome, dedicated to St. Francis from Assisi. Città della Pace by Salvatore Farina, Ad Magnificat by Angiolino Sormani, Sulle orme di Francesco by Salvatore Schembari, Il sentiero di Francesco by Sandro Tilia, Principia Hominis by Alessandro Celardi, Francesco d’Assisi by Pietro Damiani: six pieces by contemporary composers performed by the Italian Army Band evoked the life and spiritual work of the “poor man of Assisi”, “to read the soul – said Maggiore – and to be able to live better through elevation to the divine.”

The concert, first of a series of events, each dedicated to a Saint, reproduced the content of the music album that opens the publication of the series of twenty CDs, that you can find in bookstores and on iTunes in the next five years. “We started with St. Francis, though he is not a new saint, but he is an important saint”, said Maggiore. “The next one will be John Paul II with a CD of piano solos performed by a Japanese musician”. “The beauty of this project is not only to refer to the life of the Saints, who are always moral references, – said General Francesco Diella, Deputy Commander of the Military Command of the Capital – but you see it carried out by a band of an armed force: not a paradox, but a completion, because the Army is pursuing the same goals of peace and solidarity “.

“Making music always means coming out of ourselves to involve others”, added Msgr. Carlos Azvedo, chief of the Pontifical Council for Culture, which sponsored the project. “An orchestra can not work if an individual does not know how to work with others and this is a school of life to build a different world, like St. Francis dreamed”.

Original article: http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/postit/Auditorium/2016/06/24/raccontare-san-francesco-in-musica-per-leggere-lanima_40e06752-89de-4506-b415-fb7a3763760d.html

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