Composer, researcher, and Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes is In Focus on the MIC.PT in May, to mark his 60th anniversary.
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Instrumentation (general) speaker and Pierrot quintet
Text / Lyrics
Author of the Text Ruben A.
Title of Poem or Text Silêncio Para 4
Author of the Text Ruben A.
Title of Poem or Text Adeus aos Deuses
Program Notes
This work, Masculine and Musical, quotes texts by Ruben A., as found in his books Silence four 4 and Farewell to the Gods. The environments portray some of the aspects that I most cherish in his writing: the insertion of a colloquial and brilliant tone, the fragmented writing in a manner of poetic prose, a free and serene assumption of his understanding of what it is to be a man – similar to Hemingway, i.e. from a human and not a chauvinistic point of view. Quotes from Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart were included according to the references that Ruben A. makes in Goodbye to the Gods.
