Paul died. Paul did not die. And did not die because “legacy like his do not die.” The words of the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, echoed in the Lapa church, where on the afternoon of Thursday the city said goodbye for the last time, the councilman of Culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva. At the same time, his voice cracking recovering steadily every phrase, Rui Moreira promised that the work done by Cunha e Silva will continue. “The only way to Homenagearmos and we say loud and clear to those who listen to us, to those who see and those who read us, that there are irreplaceable men, is that we ensure that the flowers he has planted will not fade,” he said, getting church crammed a huge applause.
But this was far from the only applause at the farewell Paulo Cunha Silva, victim in the early hours of Wednesday, at 53, of an acute myocardial infarction. Palms started yet at the Municipal Theater Rivoli, where the councilman’s body was from the 17h of Wednesday, up to 14h on Thursday, and where many laid wreaths and farewells. With the audience’s Manoel de Oliveira auditorium full of many anonymous and familiar faces of culture, politics, academia, journalism and sport, Pedro Abrunhosa took piano account installed in a corner of the same stage where was the urn Paulo Cunha e Silva and with a voice that just missed the tremor after the first verses, sang “Enlighten Me” and “I do not know who lost you,” before saying goodbye with a “Thank you, Paul, even forever.”
Here, although there was no applause. The audience listened in silence to the singer, the interpretation to the piano Álvaro Teixeira Lopes, of several pieces of Mozart and Bach, and even heard the president of the Municipal Port Assembly, Miguel Pereira Leite, recite the English version of Funeral Blues WH Auden before his feet and offer a long applause to silence.
The palms returned when the body of Paulo Cunha e Silva left the theater who returned to the city and were made to hear, often, the Throughout the procession on foot of an impressive crowd that accompanied the funeral to the church. To pass by the building of the Chamber of Porto, and the strangely silent city streets, the global acclaim of all who participated in the procession took up the entire space, like the building itself, from within, applauded the councilman.
Rui Moreira followed on foot, accompanied by Minister of Culture, Teresa Morais, while the leader of the PS, António Costa – who have admitted, according to the Journal News , that there much was said, that Cunha e Silva would be a “strong possibility for Minister of Culture.” – followed further behind Defence Minister, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, joined the farewell at the church in a ceremony presided over by the bishop of Porto, D. Antonio Francisco dos Santos, and that this highlighted “the mission design [of Paulo Cunha e Silva] for the good of all the inhabitants of Porto.” “We see all the wide path that opened us to return to the city and do Culture Port a happy city, “said the bishop, advocating also that” the human heritage and the cultural heritage of Prof. Dr. Paulo Cunha e Silva are now entrusted to the city and the country. “
Rui Moreira spoke almost at the end of the ceremony, after a niece, a friend and companion of Paul Cunha e Silva to have also remembered and, again, the councilor memory was greeted with a big applause that accompany the exit of the urn to the crematorium of Lapa. The mayor themselves be referred to your councilor as “a good and generous genius” and reaffirmed that commitment, he says, had signed with Paulo Cunha e Silva, in several conversations, over 25 years of friendship, “We believe so and now we believe that culture is not a luxury, it’s not a very ephemeral and frivolous that spreads naturally and that is only important in times of abundance. Here and today we reaffirm our commitment to this city that we loved so much and love: Culture is not a luxury, it’s not a very ephemeral and frivolous. It is not. It is, instead, one of the pillars of the city. “
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