Música norte-americana do nosso tempo offers a retrospective of American minimalism with unique instrumentation, performed by the Orquestra Sem Fronteiras to support young talent in Portugal’s interior, as part of the Contraponto cycle dedicated to 20th and 21st-century composition.

Program
Joan Tower, Petroushkates (7')
Robert Paterson, Sextet (9') - estreia nacional
John Cage, (4'33'') 
Robert Paterson, The Thin Ice of your Fragile Mind (8') 
Nathan Bales, Song of the Open Road (8') 
Robert Paterson, Hell's Kitchen (12') 

The program is for sextet (violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano and percussion).

Sextet
Violin Pedro Lopes 
Cello Diogo Patrício 
Flute Leonor Soares 
Clarinet/bass clarinet Luís Melo 
Piano Philippe Marques 
Percussion Francisco Cipriano 


Musical direction and commentary Martim Sousa Tavares 
Executive Production Gonçalo Tavares 
Audio operation João Guimarães
 
Duration 70 minutes 


Contraponto is a cycle dedicated to 20th and 21st century composition, where we invite local, national and international ensembles and composers to guide us through the music of one of the most fertile periods in terms of new ideas and forms.   

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