An event organized by Miso Music Portugal to showcase the national music talent.
The 18th Festival Musica Viva will take place from the 18th to the 23rd of September at the Centro Cultural de Belem (CCB) and from the 1st to the 10th of October at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon. The event will be devoted essentially to create new musical approach relating Portuguese music with technology. The highlight of this year is Constance Capdeville, (the 75th Anniversary of her birth and 20 years later on her death) and also Alvaro Salazar that has an opening concert entirely devoted to him.
With the complicity of excellence and a diverse range of artists and participants, without its generosity from which, this year, we could not have this event, the festival program will also include debates, a large sound installation, the 2nd International Forum for Young Composers Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble and nine performances, to present about 60 works, 40 of them of Portuguese composers, including 15 premieres.
This musical event, considered one of the largest of its kind at a European level, like previous editions, continues to show the work of the national composers and musicians in what is considered the golden age of higher even after the time of polyphony. Opposing the disinvestment in art and culture practiced by the government, Portuguese composers and performers of today, affirm an unprecedented richness and vitality which the Musica Viva Festival gives voice since 1992, being a privileged vehicle of the communication of music that is made here and now and that reinvents itself every day.
The opening concert is on the 18th at 21 hours, to be held in the small auditorium of the CCB, with the participation of several renowned Portuguese interpreters, Elsa Marques Silva and Luis Serdoura at the piano, Nicholas Pais, the reciter and the Choir of the University of Classics of Porto, under the direction of Jose Luis Borges Coelho, who put in perspective two major works of recent production by Alvaro Salazar, "Studies Incomunicantes" I / A and I / B, which are closely interlinked, the second of which will be presented in as an absolute debut. The work of this composer, conductor, teacher and music critic, is a landmark in contemporary Portuguese culture. This music has a particular taste for textures in which the sound is sculpted by silence. The rest of the program can be found on the link placed at the end of this text.
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Este evento musical, considerado um dos maiores no seu género ao nível europeu, ao igual que edições anteriores, continua a mostrar o trabalho desenvolvido pelos compositores e músicos nacionais, naquela que é considerada a sua idade de ouro maior, bem mais além do que a época da polifonia. Contrariando o desinvestimento na arte e na cultura praticado pelo governo do estado português, os compositores e intérpretes portugueses da actualidade, afirmam uma riqueza e vitalidade sem precedentes às quais o Festival Música Viva dá voz desde 1992, sendo um veículo privilegiado de comunicação da música que se faz aqui e agora e que se reinventa dia após dia.
O concerto de abertura, terá lugar dia 18, pelas 21 horas, que terá lugar no pequeno auditório do CCB, conta com a participação de vários conceituados intérpretes portugueses, Elsa Marques Silva e Luís Serdoura ao piano, Nicolau Pais, recitante e o Coro de letras da Universidade do Porto, sob a direcção de José Luís Borges Coelho, que põem em perspectiva duas obras maiores da produção recente de Álvaro Salazar, “Estudos Incomunicantes” I/A e I/B, que estão estreitamente interligadas, a segunda das quais será apresentada em estreia absoluta. A obra deste compositor, maestro, professor e crítico musical, constitui um ponto de referência na cultura portuguesa contemporânea. A sua música apresenta um gosto particular pelas texturas em que o som é esculpido pelo silêncio. O restante programa pode ser consultado na hiperligação colocada no final deste texto.
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