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Variations to Carlos Paredes
This exhibition has ended.
Centenary show on Carlos Paredes (1925-2004), master of the Portuguese guitar, through his instruments, records, documents and films.
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Amália Rodrigues called Carlos Paredes "the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos of the Portuguese guitar", and the monastery took her at her word: it is one of three places his will left his guitars to, with the Museu do Fado and the Museu de Lisboa. For his centenary, those guitars are shown together.
Around them are his complete discography, films, programmes from his concerts and from the plays he scored, and 1970s photographs by Carlos Gil, some never published. You also get the life behind the records: the son of guitarist Artur Paredes, jailed by the PIDE in the late 1950s, later recording with jazz bassist Charlie Haden. He kept an office job at Hospital de São José into the 1990s, so the guitar gathering dust on your wardrobe has run out of excuses.
The show was extended from January and now closes on 31 October. Entry is the €5 museum ticket (€2.50 for ages 13 to 25), sold at the desk or on BOL; closed Mondays.
Look for
The bequeathed guitars
Look for the Portuguese guitars Paredes left in his will to the Museu do Fado, the Museu de Lisboa and the Jerónimos monastery, back side by side.
Carlos Gil's 1970s photographs
Photographs of Paredes taken by Carlos Gil in the 1970s, several of them never published before this show.
The complete discography
Every record Paredes released, gathered in one place, including the music he wrote for Paulo Rocha's film Verdes Anos.
Concert and theatre programmes
Printed programmes from his concerts and from the stage plays he wrote music for.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Nerding Out
- Rainy Days
With kids
Under-12s go free and ages 13 to 25 pay €2.50.
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Image credits
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- Museu do FadoTxemari (Navarra), Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- They Were Afraid, Yet They WentCourtesy of Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade
- Coexistências: Jewellery and the World's BeautyCourtesy of MUDE – Museu do Design
- Contemporary Jewellery: Tereza Seabra CollectionCourtesy of MUDE – Museu do Design
- Museu do Aljube – Resistência e LiberdadeHipersyl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MUDE – Museu do DesignDiogoBaptista / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do ChiadoHipersyl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0