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Abrantes will have a music festival  with some dates dedicated to improvised / experimental music, starting this Saturday. Great! First night, 16th October, duo with Portuguese violinist Ernesto Rodrigues   and French sax player Heddy Boubaker , at Teatro São Pedro (21:30). An evening with electro-acoustic explorations, in a live improvisation meeting with two great experimentalists. Heddy Boubaker at Mopomoso 18th April 2010 Barmark by Ernesto Rodrigues I Links: Ernesto Rodrigues Heddy Boubake

Susanna Wallumrød, voz e electrónica Morten Qvenild, teclados e piano Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, SEGUNDA 12 ABRIL 22H00

Theatre of Voices and NYYD Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier will be tomorrow night in Lisbon, at Fundação Gulbenkian, with a program that includes early music and its influence on the work of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. This program is therefore rooted in my very first experience of Pärt’s music. It is not however intended as the illustration of an idea, but rather as a concert of musical items that suit each other, both in contrast and similarity. There is an underlying sympathy between the two aesthetics at work, even though Pärt’s belongs to our time, and the medieval does not - except insofar as we make it contemporary whenever we perform it. … Broadly speaking this program is a synthesis of Pärt and early medieval music. The medieval pieces are chosen to reflect the influence of that sound-world on Pärt’s music and the technique he created called ‘tintinnabuli’. There is perhaps no other kind of music which so perfectly fits with Pärt’s than this kind of selection o...

STEVE REICH AND BANG ON A CAN 1 Nov 2009 - 21:00 GRANDE AUDITÓRIO, CCB Steve Reich, volta ao Centro Cultural de Belém, agora com o colectivo Bang on a Can. Pulitzer Prize de música em 2009 pela sua obra Double Sextet, Reich e o Bang on a Can All-Stars vão interpretar em Lisboa algumas das sua obras maiores: Clapping Music (Steve Reich and Bang on a Can) New York Counterpoint (Bang on a Can) Piano Phase/Video Phase (Bang on a Can) Music for Pieces of Wood (Steve Reich and Bang on a Can) Electric Counterpoint (Bang on a Can) Sextet (Bang on a Can) Destaque para o guitarrista Mark Stewart, que pudemos ver em Coimbra no Fred Frith Guitar Quartet no 12º aniversário da RUC. Programa completo em ccb.pt Posted via web from Zoid's reading the Wide Web