Classical music concerts and MPB show will be broadcast live at 8:30 pm for all of Brazil on the festival’s YouTube channel
This weekend, January 21 and 22, FEMUSC – Santa Catarina International Music Festival, considered the largest school festival in Latin America, will have a special program that promises to delight the public present at the Scar Theater, in Jaraguá do Sul (SC).
On Saturday, January 21, at 8:30 pm, the FEMUSC Symphony Orchestra opens the series Grandes Concertos under the regency of conductor Alex Klein, presenting the work “Quadros em uma Exhibition”, by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was originally written for solo piano, but the French composer Maurice Ravel transcribed it for orchestra. It represents a visit that Mussorgsky made to an exhibition by a deceased friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann, impressed by his work, he chose ten paintings and composed a song for each of them.
“We will present the last movement entitled “The Great Gate of Kiev”, an architectural project for a large portal for Kiev, capital of Ukraine. From a Ukrainian composer, we will once again enter this point of seeking peace and understanding among the countries that are at war”, emphasizes conductor Alex Klein, founder of FEMUSC and one of the main names in the world classical music of his generation. The conductor refers to the presentation of the “Concerto das Nações” on the 16th, which brought together Russian and Ukrainian musicians on the same stage, showing the power of the Union of Music.
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Then, another important moment of the night of Saturday, the 21st, will be the closing show of the Brazilian Popular Music Program, which in this 18th edition had great names in MPB, among them, the singer Jane Duboc and one of the main names of the Brazilian accordion and harmonica, the gaucho musician Renato Borghetti.
In the closing presentation, Femusc’s Big Band presents three instrumental pieces and another seven sung. Among them, “Miracle” by Dorival Caymmi, and “Nothing will be like before” by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges.
Jane Duboc (singing and expression), Marinho Andreotti (electrical and acoustic bass), Ramon Montagner (drums and percussion), Dino Barioni (guitar and stranded strings), Marcelo Ghelfi (piano and keyboards), Daniela Spielmann (saxophones and flute).
On Sunday, the 22nd, at 8:30 pm, under the regency of Maestro Luiz Lenzi, the Femusc Symphonic Band presents the work Sedona, by Steven Reineke.
The public will then be able to hear the works Tom Sawyer Suite (Franco Cesarini), Meteorite (Giuliano Moser), Le API (Antonino Pasculli), four Brazilian dances (Hudson Nogueira), New York Overture (Kes Vlak), Traffic (Thomas Doss). The work Baião de Lacan (Ginga and Aldir Blanc) closes the series of presentations.
The shows will be broadcast live, in high definition, by the festival’s YouTube channel. For the complete schedule, visit the FEMUSC website.
