Our next concert will take place on Saturday 14th March, at Quintinha da Música in Tavira. The performance will be a collaboration between Camerata Gold (students from the Conservatório Regional do Algarve in Faro) together with students from the National Youth Harp Orchestra, in England.
There will be five harpists (aged 12-18 years old) from the Harp Orchestra and six Portuguese students from the Conservatório. The harpists will arrive from London on Friday, and the two groups will rehearse together in harmony.
The performances in England will be on Friday 20th March, at the Royal Military Chapel at Wellington Barracks in central London, at Storrington in Sussex on 21st and on 23rd of March at the Yehudi Menuhin School, at Stoke d´Abernon in Surrey, and so we in the Algarve will benefit from a priority performance.
The student harpists will be supported by Luísa Cordell, the founder of the NYHO, while the Portuguese students will be under the baton of the Director of Camerata Gold, Laurentiu Zapciroiu, together with Helena Duarte (violin) and Irene Ainstein (piano).
Come and enjoy a program of music from Bach to popular contemporary music! Reservations at €20 can be made with Peter on peterbooker1347@gmail.com, who will also supply directions if needed. Our following concert at Quintinha will take place on 12th April.
Talks
Our history presentation for March will concentrate on Portugal´s role in the Great War, and the consequences of its participation.
Portugal joined the war in 1916 on the side of the allies with the intention of providing legitimacy for the new republic and of securing the integrity of the Portuguese Empire. But for this small country participating in a Europe-wide war, the outcomes were nothing short of calamitous. In particular the effect on the civilian population of Portugal was unforeseen, and the validity of the new First Republic itself was called into question. Join Peter to discover the fate of Portugal after the end of the war, and what effect the Versailles Treaty had on Portugal itself.
These presentations will be given in the Municipal Library Tavira at 11:00 on Friday 20th March and the Municipal Library Lagoa at 18:00 on Tuesday 31st March and are free.
