Opening Concert of the XXVI Cultural Week of the University of Coimbra

The voice was the first resource used by mankind to make music and, until the Baroque period, it represented perfection in terms of musical expression.
The opening concert of the University of Coimbra’s Cultural Week presents a repertoire that includes works with vocal elements (soloists and choirs) and others that represent the voice in a metaphorical or symbolic way.
Aaron Copland’s “Letter from Home” takes us back to the most primitive way of transmitting our “voice” as a form of communication and expression. The songs “Acordando” and “Canção da Vindima” by Joly Braga Santos bring us the voice as a solo musical instrument. The texts of these songs are also the voice of their authors: the voice of the poet Antero de Quental and the voice of the anonymous people.”Cena Lírica” by Luís de Freitas Branco is a concertante work for cello and orchestra that transports lyricism into musical expression.
In “Of Our New Day Begun”, African-American composer Omar-Thomas uses the spoken and sung voices of the orchestra’s instrumentalists to pay homage to the nine victims of the racist attack at the entrance to the “Mother Emanuel” Methodist Church in Charleston on 17 June 2015.
In the centenary year of the birth of composer Joly Braga Santos, the OAUC invited the Orfeon Académico and the Coro Misto da Universidade de Coimbra to jointly premiere a short choral-symphonic work by the composer, entitled “Ocidente”, with a text taken from Fernando Pessoa’s “Mensagem”.

Organisation: Academic Orchestra of the University of Coimbra

Partners: Rectory of the University of Coimbra

Capacity:
Grandstand 437 seats + 4 seats for reduced mobility
Balcony 327 seats

Tickets on sale at the TAGV Ticket Office
Normal ticket: €8
TAGV and OAUC musicians discount ticket: €4
Bookings for: teatro@tagv.uc.pt