After the busy day yesterday, we took today more slowly. After our standard breakfast and some internet in the lobby we left to the shopping centre. We had a very large lunch at a Mexican restaurant. We shopped for dvds and cds in the Saturn. Saturn had free wifi, so there I found out that Ad has been promoted to ambassador for StreamingSoundtracks.com. So I was the one who could inform him and congratulate him.  Afterwards it was time for the pool.

Before the concert we ate hamburgers with a beer. We took the taxi this time to make sure were  on time for this concert. That was a good thing. We met Umebayashi again and he asked Ad for his email address. Ad was happy the rest of the day. The concert started with a short movie: it was a parody on James Bond. The reason for this is that John Barry composed a lot of Bond scores. The next part of the concert was hommage to Bernard Herrmann. Music was played from for example 7th voyage of Simbad, Citizen Kane, The day the earth stood still and Taxi driver with a solo for saxophone.

During the break we had a chance to meet up with interested fans and other friends. We had to hand out the last business cards we had. Let us hope it will result in a couple of new active members. After the break the short Bond movie continued, and the hommage to John Barry started. Music was played from Born free, Midnight cowboy, Dances with wolves, Goldfinger, Diamonds are forever and it ended with The Lion in winter. Overall a satisfying performance.

Fortunately after the concert we had chance to say goodbye to most of our friends. A lot of them we will see again in Ghent in October!

To conclude this festival. Overall Ad and I had a good holiday were we got some things done for SST. In the evening we had nice concerts in absolutely gorgeous locations. We have spoken to a lot of people. Composers, agents, festival organizers etc etc. Unfortunately the organisation of Filmucite did not have time to speak to us about the collaboration next year. Which was one of our main goals of being there. But overall we we had a good exposure for SST and had a very good time on Tenerife. My next report will be in October in Ghent. Thanks for reading.

Today Ad went to the airport to collect a rental car. When he returned at the hotel we went for a drive. We took a nice mountain road to the vulcano El Teide. The journey was very cloudy/foggy but when we were above the clouds we had a nice view over the mountains. Too bad the view to the ocean was blocked by the clouds. At a visitor centre we decided to eat some lunch.

After continuing our trip we drove through a nice vulcanic landscape. We stopped at a lot of points to take pictures and go for a small walk. We ended our scenic route in Playa Las Americas, the place to be for the common tourist who is visiting Tenerife. We had beer (non-alcoholic for Ad) at the beach served by a Belgian/Dutch waiter. It was a totally different experience than we were having in Santa Cruz. It was just rare to find any local population over there, it were all tourists, while in Santa Cruz it is the other way around. Ad and I preferred Santa Cruz more ;-) Afterwards it was time to return the rental at the airport and to return to our hotel.

We ate dinner at the same place as yesterday, because they were fast yesterday with delivering our food. After dinner we met our score loving German friend Andreas and went for a quick ice-cream. That resulted in being a bit too late at the Audiatorium. Luckily we got in right before the opening. Robert Piaskowski  (director of the Krakow film music festival) and Anna (Diego’s wife) did the opening. The Polish composer Bartosz Chajdecki worked together with Diego in Krakow. During the opening he was shown on the big screen. Thanking Diego for his work in Krakow and wishing him all the luck for this concert. It was great to be reminded again about our Krakow experience.

The concert started with Umebayashi’s work. Music from House of the flying daggers, 2046, Curse of the gold flower and others were performed by a choir, orchestra, chinese percussion instruments and a lady singer. Umebayashi is a very nice friendly guy. As a bonus he writes pretty  good music. I was glad that during the break I could give him my hand and thank him for his work.

After the break it was time for Patrick Doyle’s work. Music was played from Hamlet, Much ado about nothing, Thor, Harry Potter and others. The concert was concluded with Patrick’s music from   Henry V. The audiotorium is an awesome place to hold concerts in. Overall the performance was good, Diego and the composers did an outstanding job. Afterwards we had some drinks with our new French friend Rafael we met at the concert.

The day started very relaxed. After breakfast and some coffee we left downtown for something to drink. We ate lunch in a small cafetaria where we had a nice steak with salad and fries. It was grilled in a kitchen where a small one year old child was also spending his time. Afterwards we went to a shopping mall and closed the afternoon off by spending it at the pool.

We went for dinner where I had a medium steak hawaian style and Ad had rabbit. Afterwards it was time for the third concert of the festival and our second.  It was this time in Santa Cruz itself. Like in la Laguna it was a very nice old theatre. The orchestra consisted of music students from the local university.

The evening started with music from Pascal Gaigne a Spanish composer. It was with a small orchestra which played some very nice tracks with piano and strings and the wood instrument section. After the break  a track from There be dragons written by Stephen Warbeck was played with an excellent cello solo which was played very emotionally by Stephen’s friend Nick Cooper.

Next Spanish film music critics awards were handed out: to VareseSarabande for rereleasing Alex North  his Spartacus score that is finally released, to Arnau Bataller for being the best Spanish composer in 2010 and to Roque Banos for best score. Ad called him the Spanish John Barry. The rest of the evening music from the Spanish winners were played. Where Banos conducted some of his own work.

Overall the performance was very good. You could see that the young musicians had a great time. And for me it is awesome to hear new film music from composer that I do not know. This concert was a good oppurtunity to talk to people in the scene. We spoke to Stephen, Patrick and Pascal and told them about SST. I met the Krakow people Agatha and Robert, and the guy from Costa communications that provide us some very good soundtracks. We also met Andreas a german film music lover who was quite interested in our site. Let us hope he becomes a member.