Saramago, Nobel 1998: Memorial

On December 10, 1998, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago addressed the Swedish Academy, kings and queens, heads of state, other awardees, and the remaining guests. At that moment he recalled that 50 years had passed since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Two decades after the Portuguese writer’s speech in Stockholm, the Foundation that bears his name celebrates 70 years since the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights and insists on the need for an ethics of responsibility by sharing the Universal Declaration of Human Duties as a necessary counterpoint to the Charter of Rights.

In this celebration concert, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, conducted by Jonas Alber, will present Memorial, the world premiere of a work by António Pinho Vargas based on Saramago’s Blindness, Seeing and Death with Interruptions . The program also includes Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a in Rudolf Barshai’s arrangement for string orchestra.

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