«Gentios são os olhos negros…» (Premiere)

Luís Carvalho‘s new work for Symphonic Wind Band, Gentios são os olhos negros… (Glosas sobre um tema popular açoriano), will be premiered next 30/July/2016, at Teatro Micaelense (Ponta Delgada/Azores), by the Filarmónica N. Sra. das Neves (Banda da Relva).

This piece has been comissioned for the 150^th anniversary of Banda da Relva, one of the oldest in S. Miguel island [S. Michael], and is based upon a popular azorean melody known as «Olhos pretos».