It is scheduled for this Saturday the first concert dedicated to Brazil, guest country of this year’s Festival “Land without shade”.
Created in 2003, the Festival “Land Without Shadow” crosses cultural heritage, music and biodiversity. The stages are historical churches of Baixo Alentejo and the goal is precisely to take the sacred and religious music to people that otherwise would hardly have access to it.
José António Falcão explains that there are a lot of similarities between the south of the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil” it’s a festival that perspective as a sort of open window not only on our own territory (…) also want the opening to other countries. ” José António Falcão, director of the Festival, explains that this year, the guest is Brazil, “there are many similarities between the south of the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil, in particular as regards the Alentejo, left here many Portuguese from the sixteenth century made their careers in Brazil. “
festival director sees Brazil as a” music power ”
Among them there was always a passion for music and repertoires taken from Portugal and Europe have undergone a transformation when contacted with indigenous peoples and the African cultural legacy. “Won a new color, gained new rhythms and to new realities to the emotional point of view,” emphasizes José António Falcão.
José António Falcão makes known the festival concerns” at sea, the Hinterland: Music of Brazil in the UK Times and the Empire “is the title the concert will present works of Luis Alvares Pinto (1719-1789), one of the first Brazilian composers, born in Recife and formed in the cathedral of Lisbon, the priest José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830), “the great master of Rio January in time when King John VI “established his court in that city, and the Austrian Sigismund von Neukomm (1778-1858), who lived in the Brazilian capital between 1816 and 1821. it will during Saturday night at 21:30. The Festival Terras No Shadow began in February and only ends in July.
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