One of the first editions I prepared for the Polyphonia series of the Editions MPMP in late 2012 was the collection of responsories for Christmas matins by composer Estêvão Lopes Morago which make the number 6 of this series.
Photo from my presentation last November 9th during the JAM Musicology Congress in Oviedo, where I spoke about litanies and novenas in the first half of the eighteenth century in Évora Cathedral.
Photo from my presentation at the CESEM/UÉvora Conferences in Music and Musicology, where I talked about Diogo Dias Melgaz’s beautiful motet Memento homo.
Next October 31st (Sala dos Espelhos, Colégio Mateus d’Aranda, 14h00) I will give a brief presentation on one of the works by Diogo Dias Melgaz, the four-voice a capella motet Memento homo, for Ash Wednesday.
Last October 18th, with activities until the 22nd, was the National Day for the cultural heritage of the church (in Portuguese, Dia Nacional dos Bens Culturais da Igreja), a series of events promoted by the dioceses, parishes, and museums to …
In 2014 I prepared an edition of Matheo d’Aranda’s surviving polyphonic works for the number 11 of the Polyphonia series of musical editions published by the Edições MPMP of Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.
The second review I wrote for the online edition of the Portuguese classical music magazine Glosas, of the second concert of XXI International Workshop Évora Cathedral Music School, last October 6th in Évora Cathedral.
Review for the online edition of the Portuguese classical music magazine Glosas, of the concert by vocal group Contrapunctus (dir. Owen Rees) last October 5th in Évora Cathedral.
The last decade of the seventeenth century and the first half of the next century saw two major construction works in Évora Cathedral. The first of these constructions was the new building to house the College of the Cathedral’s choirboys …
Photo from the round-table “From Manuscript to Concert: The Monastico-Conventual Musical Heritage” that I chaired in the VI Cistercian Residency S. Bento de Cástris, a beautiful monastery in the outskirts of Évora.