Monday, 26 April 2010
Paris - April 26th (1937 Guernica, 1798 Delacroix, 1916 Sá Carneiro )
Guernica - the massacre
(Picasso's work inspired on the tradgedy is completed by the summer of the same year after his having heard of the atrocity, and first shown in Paris...)
Eugène Delacroix's birth in Charenton, just outside Paris..
Mário Sá Carneiro takes his life in Paris
(one of the foremost Portuguese, literary Modernists)
Poet contemporary to and befiended by Fernando Pessoa
(Picasso's work inspired on the tradgedy is completed by the summer of the same year after his having heard of the atrocity, and first shown in Paris...)
Eugène Delacroix's birth in Charenton, just outside Paris..
Mário Sá Carneiro takes his life in Paris
(one of the foremost Portuguese, literary Modernists)
Poet contemporary to and befiended by Fernando Pessoa
Friday, 23 April 2010
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Franz Liszt: Nuages Gris / Sonata in B minor / Bagatelle sans tonalité / Malédiction
Krystian Zimerman (performing) - to listen please crank up the volume
Krystian Zimerman (performing in this and the following two parts)
Alfred Brendel (performing)
Alfred Brendel & Vienna Symphony Orchestra (performing) - in this and the following video clip
Liszt is one of my favourite authors** and within the body of work comprizing that which is his oeuvre his latest pieces are truly of special significance to me.
Goodnight.
( ** - for piano, and for mirroring a time of musical "change")
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Heiner Goebbels - composing for directors
here are six from a series of 9 videos regarding the art of musical composition and theatre (cinema, opera, plays...)
There are more
There are more
Friday, 16 April 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Concert / Concerto : Longitude Zero (Fábrica Braço de Prata - sala Nietzsche)
(music sample - Link)
Concerto
Quarta-feira, dia 14, às 22H00 toco/canto em sexteto [Longitude Zero] com: João P. Courinha (sax); Rodrigo Santo Anastácio (gt); Carlos Azevedo (pn); Zeca Neves (cbx); Paleka (bat); e eu (v/trb) na sala Nietzsche - Fábrica Braço de Prata
Repertório - alguns temas originais e standards de jazz
Concert
Tomorrow - April 14th, 10pm [Longitude Zero] in sextet: João P. Courinha (sax); Rodrigo Santo Anastácio (gt); Carlos Azevedo (pn); Zeca Neves (cbx); Paleka (bat); and myself (v/trb)
- Nietzsche Hall - Fábrica Braço de Prata (Lisbon)
Repertoire - original pieces and jazz standards, arranged for the ensemble
Monday, 12 April 2010
Boris Porena - conferenza Dal Sapere al Pensare (conference)
2 videos - conference & interview at home (part of a Documentary film)
As early as the late 1950s this man was mentor to (among others) Jorge Peixinho, a XXth Century composer of great merit and one whom in his own counrty was a towering influence, of paramount importance, pushing and enticing and his homeland´s society into the 'contemporary' world from the last half of the past century on.
Boris Porena, along with Peixinho and Ennio Morricone, was a disciple of Goffredo Petrassi.
As early as the late 1950s this man was mentor to (among others) Jorge Peixinho, a XXth Century composer of great merit and one whom in his own counrty was a towering influence, of paramount importance, pushing and enticing and his homeland´s society into the 'contemporary' world from the last half of the past century on.
Boris Porena, along with Peixinho and Ennio Morricone, was a disciple of Goffredo Petrassi.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
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