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INET-md joins Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul to promote a concert-talk, which arises from the research carried out by Alejandro Reyes-Lucero, PhD student on Musical Sciences at NOVA FCSH, within the Research Group Historical and Cultural Studies in Music.
 
 
2024.05.17 | 7pm | COSSOUL - Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul | Rua Nova da Piedade, n.º 66 - 1200-299 Lisbon | Free entrance
 
 
In 1923, the amateur singer and patron Emma Romero Santos Fonseca da Câmara Reis began organising a series of concert-conferences in Lisbon called "Divulgação Musical" (Popularizing Music). The main aim of this project was to give a first hearing to musical works unknown to the Portuguese public, based on three thematic areas: 1. Vocal Music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; 2. Folk Music/Popular Song and 3. Modern Chamber Music.
 
Each concert began with an introductory talk aimed at contextualising and facilitating listening to the works chosen for each programme. Many figures from Portuguese intellectual and cultural life at the time took part as guest speakers. Authors and journalists such as António Sérgio, Bento de Jesús Caraça, Luís da Câmara Reis, Aquilino Ribeiro or José Maria Ferreira de Castro, as well as composers Luís de Freitas Branco and Fernando Lopes-Graça, are just a few examples of the diversity of speakers. With the participation of music amateurs and professional instrumentalists, "Divulgação Musical" began its work in Ema Santos Fonseca's private music salon, and went on to venues such as the Salão Nobre do Conservatório Nacional, the Academia de Amadores de Música, the Liga Naval Portuguesa and the Universidade Popular Portuguesa. Between 1923 and 1940, and in the context of the "Divulgação Musical" audition cycle, 142 concert-conferences were organised.
 
Inspired by the work of Emma Santos Fonseca, in this concert we intend to reproduce the programmes of concert number 69, in part, and concert number 91, in full, from "Divulgação Musical". The programme will be exclusively dedicated to music by Brazilian composers. As a tribute to its divulgative nature, and immediately after the musical performance, we propose a discussion between the musicians, the audience and a guest musicologist specialising in this area.
 
 
Programme:

1. 12 Exercícios brasileiros | Luciano Gallet
 
Valsa séstrosa
Puladinho 1º
Dobrado
Chorinho
Modinha
Tanguinho
Schotisch brasileira
Serésta
Maxixe
Polka sertaneja
Puladinho 2º
Batuque
 
(Piano four hands)
Alejandro Reyes-Lucero, Ricardo da Rocha
 
 
 
2. Modinhas Imperiais | Como recolhidas por Mário de Andrade
 
Acaso são estes
Busco a campina serena
Quando as glórias que gozei
Último adeus de amor
Hei de amar-te até morrer
 
(Singing and piano)
Alberto Pacheco, Alejandro Reyes-Lucero
 
 
 
 
Interpretation:
 
Alberto Pacheco – Singing (tenor)
Ricardo da Rocha – Piano
Alejandro Reyes-Lucero – Piano
 
 
Speaker:
 
Juliana Wady | Juliana Wady began her university career while still in Brazil, at the State University of Campinas. In 2016, in Portugal, she continued her studies in Historical Musicology at the University of Évora, where she completed her degree. She then completed her Master's degree in Musical Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (UNL), proposing an analysis of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Cirandas based on topic theory. Juliana Wady is currently on a PhD scholarship at the same university under the project "Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil" (UI/BD/151161/2021), proposed by CESEM, with research into modernism and nationalism in the Portuguese-Brazilian context. Within these themes, Juliana Wady has participated in various congresses and published articles in Portugal and Brazil.