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Pulse of Culture 18.07

Wojciech Kilar, a famous Polish music composer, known particularly for his work on film scores, would have celebrated his 90th birthday on July 18.

Kilar was born in Lviv, now in western Ukraine, in 1932. He debuted in the 1950s and was later one of the co-founders of the Polish avant-garde school of music known as “sonarism”, whose other representatives included Krzysztof Penderecki. International film audiences know his works from film scores he composed for such seminal works of art as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. Penderecki died on 29 December 2013.

The memory of the composer was celebrated in Katowice, in southern Poland, where he spent most of his life. A concert of his music was performed in the garden of the house in which he lived.

Other cultural events covered in this instalment of Pulse of Culture were: Budapest Museum of Fine Arts opens an exhibition of Henri Matisse; Sam Taylor-Johnson is working on Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black”, named after one of the singer’s albums; 3rd edition of Cinema Paradiso kicks off in Paris, with films screened in the courtyard of the world-famous Louvre Museum; precious reliquary purported to contain the blood of Jesus Christ that was stolen in early June this year recovered by a real-life Dutch Indiana Jones.

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