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Portugal's Arts Agency Funds 77 Music and Opera Projects and Turns Away 131 That Qualified, Because the Money Ran Out
DGArtes is spending 2.195 million euros on 72 music and five opera projects, most of them in the Norte and the Centro. Of 222 applications, 131 cleared the eligibility bar and still got nothing, the same pattern as every other call in this year's programme.
Two Painted Pilasters Stood in a Caramulo Garage for Seventy Years. Specialists Say the Painter Was Columbano.
The family of Abel Lacerda, who founded the Museu do Caramulo, lifted a cover in the garage of his house and found decorative painting underneath. The curator Pedro Lapa places the work beside the panels in the Hotel da Lapa.
Jorge Palma, Who Left the Conservatory for Rock at Fourteen and Was Paid for His First Single in White Goods, Has Died at 76
The songwriter died in Lisbon on Monday night of a cardiorespiratory arrest. Tributes came from the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and the Socialist leader, and from a generation that knew the words to everything on one 1991 record.