by Alvaro Henrique | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog English, guitar world, Music
I started a project to raise the spotlight on a very important yet neglected Brazilian composer, Cesar Guerra-Peixe. He is a unique case of a composer who is considered a key figure in two RIVAL musical movement in Brazil, the Musica Viva, focused on avant-gard music,...
by Alvaro Henrique | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog English, Music
Last week I wrote in this blog about the cancelation of a traditional guitar competition due to the Covid-19 restrictions making it impossible to organize an international competition (https://alvarohenrique.com/en/from-cancelations-to-smiles/) This week I’m...
by Alvaro Henrique | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog English, Music
Complete video of a concert at Musical Fridays Online Concert at Casa Thomas Jefferson, streaming version of the tradicional concert series that happens in Brasilia for decades, organized by the cultural binational USA-Brazil center Casa Thomas Jefferson....
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog English, Music
It was very special for me making the DVD “Guitar Through the Ages”. This project allowed me the opportunity to show pieces of music from the arrival of Europeans in the Americas to present day on the instruments of each era. The project, funded by the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
The genesis of Hommage pour le tombeau de Debussy is to be found in the death of Claude Debussy, when Henri Prunierers, editor of the Parisian music journal “Le Revue Musicale”, asked numerous composers among them Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and Falla to...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
In this “Music Talks” I expand one of the ideas I mentioned on our first video, about how melodies are composed (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSevH-nSTvQ). On the first video, I focused on “universal” features that lead to the...
