Vertentes Modernistas
100 years since the Modern Art Week of 1922
2023
THE CONCERT
Vertentes Modernistas is a production celebrating the centennial of the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna), highlighting its artistic and cultural impact on Brazilian music over the past century, through songs with entirely new arrangements for voice and orchestra.
In February 1922, the memorable Modern Art Week took place at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo. The movement brought together a generation of artists and intellectuals determined to break with academic tradition by modernizing artistic languages, driven by the need for an essentially national character. Known as "futurists," these Brazilians challenged the prevailing aesthetics and the audience's subjective role in appreciating art across its different forms.
What has this artistic movement yielded in today's art? How have subsequent generations incorporated Mário de Andrade's artistic principles over the past 100 years? How can a Brazilian musical identity be built in this new, globalized millennium?
THE REPERTOIRE
The production "Vertentes Modernistas" aims to answer these questions in a dynamic, artistic way, performed by singers Chiara Santoro (soprano) and Luciana Costa et Silva (mezzo-soprano), accompanied by an orchestra of 16 women musicians. The concert is under the musical direction and conducting of maestra Priscila Bomfim.
The repertoire is made up entirely of Brazilian works from the movement and from composers influenced by the modernists. With arrangements by Tibor Fittel, the concert includes songs by Ernani Braga, Claudio Santoro, Francisco Mignone, and Almeida Prado, as well as contemporary composers such as Ronaldo Miranda, Ricardo Tacuchian, and João Guilherme Ripper. The program will also feature two songs by composers Leticia de Figueiredo and Olga Pedrário, arranged by São Paulo composer Juliana Ripke. In addition, audiences will get to enjoy the world premiere of the cycle "Aceitação e Chegada" ("Acceptance and Arrival"), by composer Guilherme Bernstein.
CREDITS
Chiara Santoro | soprano
Luciana Costa et Silva | mezzo-soprano
Priscila Bomfim | musical direction and conducting
Júlia Requião | production direction and lighting
Tibor Fittel, Juliana Ripke | arrangements and orchestration
Edvan Moraes | rehearsal pianist
Orchestra
Gabriela Queiroz (concertmaster), Andrea Carizzi, Inah Kurrels, Renata Athayde | violin I
Marluce Ferreira, Keeyth Vianna, Camila Bastos | violin II
Cindy Folly, Rubia Siqueira | viola
Gretel Paganini, Nora Fortunato | cello
Voila Marques | double bass
Paula Martins | flute
Vanessa Prado | clarinet
Ana Letícia, Rafaela Calvet | percussion
Teams
Rafael Eveno | executive production
Rubem Calazans | stage coordination
Diogo Gauziski | video recording
Emanuela Palma, Cristiano Requião | teaser recording
Calebe Faria | graphic design
Fernanda Mattos | lighting operation
Victor Abalada | subtitling
Jadson Abraão | sign language interpreter
Luisa Lima | communications
Reg Murray | press office
Ana Clara Miranda | photography
Concept: Chiara Santoro, Luciana Costa et Silva, Marina Considera
TIN-BRAZIL 41.067.003/0001-20
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