A Climent orchard down in the south

ANGEL CLIMENT is going home. After 41 years as an organist, choirmaster, composer, pianist and teacher, the Valencia man, (Spain, not Kerry) is retiring and heading to the Orchard of the South, as his home place in Spain is known.

Mr Climent, whose CD, This is my Will, featuring three Masses and other motifs is currently on release, is a prolific composer and accompanist.

One of his early works was commissioned to open the Cork Film Festival in the 1960s and he chuckles at the thought of Hollywood stars sitting through sung Masses in St Francis's Church.