Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Today is World Music Day: all concerts here – Blitz

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Several initiatives around the country celebrate today, October 1st, the World Music Day, from fado performances to classical music concerts and performances for children and youth groups

The World Music Day, formalized by the International Music Council, non-governmental organization supported by UNESCO, celebrated since 1975, having been a violinist Yehudi Menuhin initiative, then president of that council.

In Vila do Conde, the Municipal Theatre, at 21:30, operates a of the Music Academy of St. Pius X String Orchestra, directed by Sonia War.

The pedagogical director of the Academy, Pine Aires, told Lusa that the orchestra consists of 20 students and teachers – violin, cello and vileta – which will present the musical art of the Baroque and Classical periods “wide with pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn. “

In Trofa, Singers Boys Choir of the Municipality of Trofa this day celebrates 15 years of existence, starting at the local House of Culture a series of commemorative presentations ephemeris. 19.00 works the choir consists of 40 voices, directed by Antonia Maria Serra, followed by the presentation of your CD I love December , with poems and music of Mario Alves, the canon Ferreira dos Santos.

In Coimbra day is celebrated by the Center Jazz Club, with the presentation at 19:00 in Hall Brazil its Education Service in a forum of debate. In the morning, at 10.30am, in the same spot in downtown Coimbra, achieves the “workshop” music “GeraSom” led by music therapist Paula Nozzari.

This “workshop”, reports the Jazz Center , “was built in partnership with the National Association for the Support of Elderly Coimbra and will be attended by 15 people, all with more than 60 years.”

At 22:00 there will be a concert with Sumrrá, coming from Spain , the music critic Candido Querol pointed as “the most innovative trio of Spanish scene.” The trio, formed by Manuel Gutiérrez (piano), Xacobe Martínez (contrabass) and LAR Legido (drums), appeared in 2000 and has held several international tours.

Still in Coimbra, at 21.30, at the Pavilion of Portugal, a Classical Orchestra Center , under the direction David Wyn Lloyd, acts with the concertmaster Peter Fisher. The concert program consists of “Romance in F Major” by Beethoven for violin and orchestra, “Summer Night on the River” by Frederick Delius, and the Symphony No. 38, “Prague” by Mozart.

In Vila Franca de Gaia at 19.00, in the Neo-Realism Museum, is realized the concert Prima Luce by Guitar Quartet Lisbon . This quartet, formed in 2006 by André Santos, Miguel Vieira da Silva, José Dias and Pedro Luís, presents “a unique program only consists of pieces of Portuguese composers, written in this XXI century by André Santos, José Dias, Francisco Tavares and Carlos Marecos.

In the Fado Museum in Lisbon at 19.00 Cristiana Waters presents his debut album . A performer will be accompanied by the Portuguese guitar by Antonio Andrade Santos, the classical guitar by Nilson Dourado and bass by Carlos Menezes, with the special participation of the singer Pedro Moutinho, and even musicians Mário Pacheco, the Portuguese guitar, and Carlos Leitao, on classical guitar.

At the Museum Music in Lisbon, there will also be various activities, including concerts at 18.00 with Stradivarius Cello of King Louis, Pavel Gomziakov.

The cellist Pavel Gomziakov interpret pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Cesar Franck, accompanied by pianist Jill Lawson, a note informs the Museum.

The Stradivarius cello, told Lusa source of the Museum, is dated 1725 and is classified as a “National Treasure”. The instrument belonged to King Louis (1838-1889), who played the cello, and is the only instrument with the signing of Antonio Stradivari existing builder in Portugal, and was also known as “Cello Chevillard,” for having belonged to the Belgian cellist Pierre Chevillard (1811-1877).

This instrument has “shaped the famous ‘B’, the most famous among the different used by Antonio Stradivari, used from 1707 to 1726, the golden period of the builder” Cremona, Italy, according to the same source.

The Russian cellist Pavel Gomziakov, 39, recorded with pianist Maria João Pires works of Frédéric Chopin, album that earned a nomination for Grammy Awards in 2009 The two musicians played together in various European stages, including at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Köln Philharmonie in Cologne, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and at the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, as well as rooms in the Far East and South America.

In the current 2013/14 season, the musician worked with Artur Pizarro in March last year in CCB. In July last participated in the 26th Festival of Colmar, France, and the Ekenas, Finland, at the invitation of conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. It toured to Japan with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and performed with, among others, the Russian National Orchestra, I Pomeriggi Musicali Milano and the Chamber Orchestra of Finland.

At the Museum, located at station Metropolitan of Upper Mills, celebrating the World Day of Music start at 10.30am with an activity of educational services, titled “How the Musical instruments are classified.”

At 15:30 is expected “to a band performance band in the vicinity of the museum, “the source told Lusa institution.

At 19.30 opens the exhibition” Inspiration Sax, Mélodies Graphiques “which celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax, inventor Saxophone. The exhibition consists of works of cartoonists and illustrators of Wallonia and Brussels.

The ceremony has a musical moment by saxophonist Bruno Margalho, who usually plays alto saxophone and is a quartet with pianist Dan Hewson, the Gonçalo Leonardo bassist and drummer John Lancaster

Lusa

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