3.4.08

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Alertado para uma presença "Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos" num blog, lá fui à procura do dito. Achei piada ao que lá estava e, melhor ainda, quando ia teclar uma resposta reparei que a sagacidade informativa do companheiro Oliveira já cumprira, galhardamente, esse desiderato.
Aqui fica o material com o comentário e a res-resposta:
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Short term rental apartment in Alfama
"To the east of the Baixa lies the Alfama, the oldest part of the city, where narrow, winding streets crowd down to the river between a jumble of houses... " in Encyclopaedia Britannica
Quarta-feira, 2 de Abril de 2008

Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos
Right in the beginning of Alfama, behind "Casa dos Bicos"(Rua Afonso de Albuquerque, 4), there is a bar called "Tradicional", which is (or was?) the headquarters of "Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos", a music group which has been working for years, in order to keep traditional Portuguese music alive.
One of Portugal's most known music types is the "cantares alentejanos", vocal music sung by men, in the plains of Alentejo, one of Portugal's regions with the strongest character and culture.
What the "Ronda" did in 2003 was redo the "cantares", bringing them together with an orchestra (something not all "canto" lovers approved, for sure, as this is a vocal chant, sung without instruments, and traditionally by men), out on stage to Lisboa's Centro Cultural de Belém (January 2004), one of the city's main music halls (and I was there!). Together with more than one hundred "canto" singers and the orchestra, Ronda had other singers of different origins participating, trying to establish a musical connection with other kinds of music, bringing it all together into what they called "music from the plains" (música da planície). I tried to upload "Limoeiro" (lemon tree), performed together with Spanish flamenco singer Esperanza Fernandez (... amazing, gave me the shivers! :-)), but it was too large a file. You may access Youtubes video here. The concert is available on DVD, and there are more clips fom it available on the net.
Postado por bloggueador às 21:47
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Oliveira disse...
This isn't the headquarters of Ronda anymore. For some years now. But very soon, another abr will be opening in Alcantara. We'll be anouncing it in our website (www.rondadosquatrocaminhos.com). All the best.
3 de Abril de 2008 15:34
bloggueador disse...
Pois obrigado pela informação .... e é pena, pois era um espaço onde nos sentiamos bem!

PS:
Agora eu, cbarata: Fui ver hoje o Zé Barros no Carvalheda e gostei muito. Boa Zé Barros e "O Navegante"

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Blogger cbarata said...

Já agora comento-me a mim.
A certa altura o Carvalheda disse que estavam lá "elementos da Ronda dos quatro caminhos" ao que o Zé Barros retorquiu que "deixam entrar toda a gente". `
Há-des cá vir!!
Adeus. Vou pa Mangualde.

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