Luis Soares's Blog, page 57

Push the Sky Away

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis perform a triumphant rendition of "Push the Sky Away" recorded at their Film Music concert in December 2019 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.

Julie Lea Goodwin, soprano
Nicholas Buc, conductor

Audio mix: Joshua Craig

Film Music: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis was originally produced by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Danez Smith - Scene: Portrait of a Black Boy With Flowers

& he is not in a casket

nor do I say roses all around him
& mean a low blood tide

he does not return to dirt

the stem does not bloom
from concrete

he does not bring flowers
to his best friend’s wake

nor does he give them
to a woman who will
grieve him one day

the boy is in his aunt’s garden
& the word does not matter

his lungs are full
of a green, full scent

pollen dusts his skin
gold as he grows

Jon Henry - Stranger Fruit

Stranger Fruit was created in response to the senseless murders of black men across the nation by police violence. Even with smart phones and dash cams recording the actions, more lives get cut short due to unnecessary and excessive violence.

Who is next? Me? My brother? My friends? How do we protect these men?

Lost in the furor of media coverage, lawsuits and protests is the plight of the mother. Who, regardless of the legal outcome, must carry on without her child.

I set out to photogr...

A mood.

House Music All Night Long (Extended All Night Gonz version ft. Chilly Gonzales & Naala)

Original version available on the forthcoming JARV IS… album “Beyond the Pale”. Released July 17th on Rough Trade Records. Directed & edited by Eddie the Wheel. This video was made possible by Green Screen Technology.

Les Baricades Mïstérieuses

Jean Rondeau & Thomas Dunford record "Les Baricades Mïstérieuses" by François Couperin

"We don’t know how to play alone. This is the paradox of the game of music: a cross between extremely precise rules for how to play – how to read this cryptic language we spend our life deciphering, like hieroglyphs – and the magic to which it leads us – its at once organic and dreamlike dimension." Discover Barricades: https://w.lnk.to/brcsLY

Among the composers present in the program is François Couperin, w...

William Butler Yeats - Among School Children

I

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing,
To study reading-books and history,
To cut and sew, be neat in everything
In the best modern way—the children's eyes
In momentary wonder stare upon
A sixty-year-old smiling public man.

II

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire, a tale that she
Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event
That changed some childish day to tragedy—
Told, and it seemed that our two nat...

Bach pela fresca.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044

1. Allegro
2. Adagio ma non tanto e dolce
3. Tempo di Allabreve

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050

1. Allegro
2. Affetuoso
3. Allegro

Lorenza Borrani, artistic director / violin
Clara Andrada, flute
Elina Albach, harpsichord
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

This concert was live recorded at the University Aula in Oslo, 11 February 2020.

O Octeto de Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn - Octeto para Cordas, em Mi bemol maior, op. 20

Os instrumentistas da Orquestra Gulbenkian retomaram os ensaios e a música voltou a soar no Grande Auditório. Passo a passo, vamos retomando a normalidade e as boas notícias começam, finalmente, a chegar. Sob fortes medidas de segurança, durante o mês de junho os concertos de música de câmara irão regressar, ainda sem público, através da transmissão nas nossas plataformas digitais. Neste primeiro recital, os Solistas da Orquestra...

Véspera em Casa

[Véspera em Casa] é uma pequena série de vídeos em que os Clã, cada um no seu canto, tocam versões minimais de alguns temas do álbum VÉSPERA.
Câmara: Clã / Pós-produção: Joana X e Nuno Marques

Sinais - Letra: Samuel Úria / Música: Hélder Gonçalves

Tudo No Amor - Letra: Sérgio Godinho / Música: Hélder Gonçalves

W.H. Auden - Epitaph on a Tyrant

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.