Thursday evening, April 23. In the Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon, a string quartet, the Alis Ubbo Ensemble, traveling by “themes ever” the seventh art. And if we talk about cinema, the trip continues with the screening of the film “Around the World in 50 concerts”, the Dutch filmmaker Heddy Honigman. This event marks the partnership between two artistic festivals for the first time, the capital receives simultaneously: IndieLisboa and Music Days . But if the independent film festival runs until May, in the city center, the attentions are focused already this weekend and in the Bethlehem area.
The CCB since its foundation, Miguel Leal Rabbit is again, responsible for programming another year festival. In the ninth, the Music Days still want to “deconstruct the idea that classical music is very closed”, with shorter concerts, a wider range of choices and other activities for the whole family. Through this event, the artistic director of CCB intends to consolidate a ‘broader festival, more affordable, bringing the informal contact between artists and audiences. “
By the corridors of the BAC, it is not uncommon give guys with a pianist who, minutes before, was applauded by dozens of people. And opportunities abound. This year, 84 concerts are scheduled spread over auditoriums, meeting rooms, an foyer and an outdoor space. Various film genres, world-renowned filmmakers and the songs that connect us to the most remarkable characters in film history will go through Bethlehem.
But on Thursday morning, the music was another. Among the bustle tests arrival of trucks for television broadcasting and requests the press, Luís de Freitas Branco room on the first floor, it requires absolute silence. On stage are three very different types of pianos and, leaning over one, is Paul Pimentel, for many years, “[he] knows”, the only tuner Portuguese carnations. At 52, already takes more than two decades around pianos and keyboard instruments that preceded them. The formative years in Germany, a factory of nails, gave him the bases; the still developing technique, across the country and abroad. But as in previous editions, the Music Days take you hours, “many”, prior to the festival.
A lot of work also passes through the hands of Madalena Wallenstein, responsible for Factory of Arts, the education of the CCB project. As coordinator of the various activities planned for the younger audience, presents the workshops that will take place over the weekend and what is already happening. If Filipe Raposo followed – the piano and a tribute to the silent film that so many sounds breathed – Chaplin film clips, Keaton and the classic “Trip to the Moon” , Georges Méliès of, Piglet Daisy tried to explain the “Music in Movies” with the help of color Pink Panther.
This Friday morning, 600 children will occupy several rooms of the building. After the successful first edition, the Mini Music Days returns for the sequel. Schools across the country visit this version of the festival adapted to smallest. For Saturday and Sunday is scheduled “Mission Impossible,” a Luís Bragança Gil work that exchange turns to music to our film memory. Here, the trainer shows, among several examples of disparity, the classic scene d ‘”The French Lieutenant’s Lover”, in all its symbolic, accompanied by the theme music of the movie James Bond .
For Magdalene, this type of initiative allows to display movies or music as “an unfinished art” because “lays bare all the artistic construction process” where he explains, “beyond the historical experiences” and “strangeness” that younger feel to see so old movies, “is a reflection, a curiosity that is.” It’s almost like watching Paul to tune a Renaissance cloves and mention the concerts in which the electric guitar will be present.
Now Manuel Maria Nery, representative of the National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education (ANQEP), tries “Designing the Future with Art”. This initiative ANQEP is developed with various professional music schools across the country, at the secondary level. Coming from public or private institutions and cooperatives, the mainland and islands, these young people between 13 and 18 years living the early stages of their careers and form the Youth Orchestra, or, as presented, OJ.com . “There are two times in the selection and presentation,” explains Maria Manuel. “First, we have auditions for a stage of a week in which students over a year of training are evaluated by a jury.” After this test, the selected work in your area, opposite the conductor who, if they pass new evidence, shall be able to drive in the Grand Auditorium of the CCB.
This year, it’s up to Ernst Schelle the direction of almost 300 young people who, on 24 April, take the stage for the first time in the capital. And the audience will be other schools to witness the moment. Maria Manuel out this link between classical music and a new potential audience: “It’s not the quietest audience or dead, but the feedback has been very positive.” So much so that this year, the event is available to the general public. The level of young people, we must highlight the schedule of room Amalia Rodrigues, entirely dedicated to the talents of young conservatories and music academies across the country without fear of attack notes Yann Tiersen , Emir Kusturica , Leonard Cohen , Vangelis or almost ubiquitous John Williams (which will be interpreted by many of these groups) .
sound Silences
“The film was never silent. Just look at the origins of cinema, when there was always music, pianists to accompany the film, “the journalist Nuno Galopim. Music lover and radio director, founded ten years ago the Sound + Vision blog, a partnership with film critic João Lopes. This weekend, Nuno Galopim receives this and other guests in the CCB Reading Room, in space “Here there are conversations”. Two days, six guests and a more “journalistic perspective of the link between the world of music and the film world.” This is how Nuno Galopim proposes this “quiet space” where each guest justified, at length, the choice of a soundtrack that has marked. João Pereira Bastos, Rita Redshoes, David Ferreira and the director Bruno de Almeida (in John Botelho replacement) will go through this space will close with Pedro Mexia, columnist and former director of the Portuguese Film. Dialogues “around the music history and the history of cinema.”
The Portuguese music also mark a strong presence. Mario Laginha takes the stage to remember the melodies of “Alice “Friend of the compositions Bernardo Sassetti . The singer Ricardo Ribeiro shows on Saturday “Shadow and Light in Songs,” a show that part of links, lifelong, links to movies, music and memory. For the opening and closing of these concerts Music Days, act two symphony orchestras: the Metropolitan (OSM) and the Portuguese (OSP). At startup, directed by Pedro Amaral, OSM will play Strauss and Rachmaninov. For the party, it is for the OSP and the João Paulo Santos, with musical direction, recover classical Bernstein, Soundheim and of course John Williams.
Whether music lover, movie buff or, as Paul, it carefully tuning a musical instrument with centuries of existence, be sure to follow a shared ritual for all: “Please turn off your mobile phone. “
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