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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of April 25th, the date on which Portugal freed itself from Salazarism. One of the symbols of that “initial whole and clean day” was the song “E depois do adeus” (And After the Farewell), made famous by Paulo de Carvalho, a composer and performer who is celebrating 60 years of career – ten more than the Carnation Revolution – and, as he himself pointed out in one of his many classics for Portuguese music, “ten years is a long time”.

And so we reach the end of a special year...

A new year is already on the horizon, and with it come wishes cast to the four winds for another cycle. At Casa da Música, each of these ritual transitions also marks the start of a new concert season, filled with original offerings linked by a thread that will guide us through the next orbit around the Sun.