(2013)
Instr:
Flute and Violoncello
Duration:
10.00' minutes
Commission:
Culturgest, Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Premiere:
OrchestrUtópica Soloists: Katharine Rawdon, flutes; Catherine Strynckx, cello, Culturgest, Lisbon on October 4, 2013
Sobre um quadro de Júlio Pomar – On a Painting by Júlio Pomar
I have been inspired by Júlio Pomar’s paintings since my childhood so when I was approached by the Culturgest Foundation to write a piece for their twentieth anniversary celebrations, I knew that this was the perfect occasion to pay tribute to one of Portugal’s most acclaimed painters. For this special series of concerts, I chose a painting from the Foundation’s private collection with which I feel a great affinity: “Fernando Pessoa meets D. Sebastião inside his coffin, Andalusian-style.”