Traditional Portuguese dances revisited
30 SEPTEMBER / saturday / 21h30 THEATRE-CINE OF TORRES VEDRAS
N. Côrte-Real (b. 1971)
Folias (Novíssimo Cancioneiro – – Book Three)
absolute premiere
Nuno Côrte-Real, musical direction
Pedro Teixeira, choir conductor
CHOIR RICERCARE ENSEMBLE DARCOS
Long gone are the days when António Ferro’s Política do Espírito (1895-1956) produced an idealised image of popular art at the propagandistic service of the Estado Novo, emphasising the supposed identity unity of a nuanced rural universe. Over the last decades, music and dance, as expressions of the soul, representing the social identity of a community, in environments marked by poverty, idiosyncrasies of the male and female universe, interpenetration of the sacred and the profane, exclusively based on oral tradition, have been exposed to permanent mutation and recreation. This phenomenon, which has come to be called cosmopolitanism, starts from tradition, as a transmitted immaterial legacy, respected but changing, identity and authenticity, as genuine and unchanged.Thus, many composers have invoked external musical discourses, giving a superlative dimension to this identity heritage. After Book One, op.12 (which deals with repertoire from the north to the south of the country and also from Galicia) and Book Two, op.57 (entirely dedicated to the Alentejo cante from the city of Serpa), we have the absolute premiere of Book Three of the Novíssimo Cancioneiro by Nuno Côrte-Real (b. 1971), dedicated to traditional Portuguese dances.