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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | City of London Festival celebrates Portuguese culture
great Heitor Villa-Lobos alongside Bach, Chopin
and Schumann (1 July) and in an outdoor
performance with the London Symphony
Orchestra (9 July). Villa-Lobos – acknowledged
as the single most significant creative figure in
20th-century Brazilian art music – will be heard
throughout the Festival in chamber music, songs
and solo works.
Other classical highlights include Goanese
soprano Patricia Rozario and Brazilian cellist
António Meneses (23 June), Lisbon’s Gulbenkian
Choir (30 June), A Capella Portuguesa (25 June)
and Pedro Caldeira Cabral, the world’s leading
authority on the Portuguese guitar (6 July). On a
light-hearted note, wine expert Charles Metcalfe
is joined by three of Portugal’s best young fado
singers and some of the country’s finest wines
for a tasting and a quiz in Vintners’ Hall (7July).
The City of London Festival is known for its
wealth of free outdoor events and this year the
open spaces of the Square Mile and beyond will
be filled with the rhythms of music from the
Portuguese-speaking world. Mozambican
Deodato Siquir’s trio (25 June), the six Los
Piratas from Colombia and Brazil (2 July) and
Mano de Dios (9 July) will be providing
Commuter Music at Liverpool Street Station from
6-6.30pm. Angolan septet Lindu Mona (28
June), Portuguese quintet Sons da Gente (28
June) and Brazilian accordion superstar Renato
Borghetti (30 June) are amongst those offering
Music in the Yard at Guildhall Yard at lunchtimes
and at the end of a long working day. In the last
in the Jazz in the Yard series, Claridade fuse
some of Brazil’s most beautiful rhythms and
songs with a jazz sensibility with vocalist Clare
Foster singing in both English and Portuguese.
Once again, dance plays a major part in the City
of London Festival. Choreographer and capoeira
master Mestre Ponciano Almeida pitches
ephemeral human form against monumental
architectural structure in Moment and
Monument,
a fusion of capoeira and
contemporary dance at some of the City’s most
iconic locations (5 and 7 July). Ponciano Almeida
has also choreographed In-Flight Entertainment,
a unique event with the Aurora Orchestra (9
July). Western baroque, 20th century and
modern music are combined with capoeirainspired
choreography from Almeida and his
Cordão de Ouro group. Critically-acclaimed aerial
theatre company Ockham Razor’s will give the
outdoor première of daringly dramatic new piece
The Mill on 1 and 2 July. For those interested in
doing as well as watching, dance workshops will
be led by two Forró dancers as part of Forró
http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/news/press-releases/2010/colf-2010-portuguese-culture
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