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community choir, children's choir and wind orchestra
community choir, children's choir and wind orchestra
Document title Montanhas Somos
Date of Composition· 2024
Instrumentation
Musical Category Vocal Group/Choir and Orchestra/Ens.
Instrumentation (general) community choir, children's choir and wind orchestra
Premiere
Date 2024/Sep/06
Performer(s)
community choir, Loivos wind orchestra
Organization/Event 9 Aldeias, 1 Povo
Venue Auditório do Centro Cultural de Chaves
Town Chaves
Country Portugal
Program Notes
The piece ‘Montanhas Somos’ is an original piece for community choir and wind orchestra that sought to fulfil the request of the Banda Musical de Loivos for the project ‘9 Aldeias, 1 Povo’ project. After living in Sabroso de Aguiar, the village I was assigned to develop the conceptual work, I took some ideas from the testimonies given by the residents of that village: some childhood games; folk songs that were extracted, manipulated and presented without us realising exactly what they are, although they seem very familiar to us and, of course, the beauty of the mountains that the whole region displays.