{"id":222,"date":"2022-06-12T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/?p=222"},"modified":"2022-07-13T00:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:25:21","slug":"lisbon-porto-street-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2022\/06\/12\/lisbon-porto-street-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon & Porto – Street Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a holiday weekend here in Porto — Portugal Day. We need to learn more about its history, but for now, it means that locals are happy for a long weekend, and tourists are filling the streets, happy to be on vacation, perhaps clueless about the holiday. Or, if they’re Portuguese tourists, they’re here because of the holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ran across street musicians at many corners and plazas. Usually they were solo musicians with some kind of accompanimental backing track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Lisboa, from the tower of the Jeronimos monastery, we heard a guitarist sounding contemplative. It was a pop song played in a classical style, enhancing the antique mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also at Jeronimos, the organ was practicing, or playing an unannounced concert. Skilled playing ornamented in an early style, pre-Bach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Porto, a flutist played, slightly out of tune, with recorded harp accompaniment, standing by a wall in the blazing sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On S. Caterina street, a musician played a musical saw. The sound echoed electronically like an Ondes Martenot. He sometimes played a tune, with great pitch accuracy, and sometimes went sliding around his range in an improv style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later, near the same location, a trumpet echoed, very loud when we passed front, but the resonant walls of the buildings made a grand sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior-citizen singing group, accompanied by an accordion, 2 ukeleles and a drum, sang traditional songs. The songs were unfamiliar to me but a guy standing next to me was humming along with the singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A saxophone played on the plaza by the S\u00e9 Cathedral. From a distance, the echoing sound seemed again electronic, but close up, the saxophone’s expressive sound came clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A drumming group played near the Sao Bento train station — a steady cadence, with a finale at double time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A woman walked by us with a doublebass on her back. Where was she going to play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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