Saturday, May 29, 2010
Haroldo Lobo & Bloco da Bicharada
Haroldo Lobo in a caricature by Claudio Sendin
(Veja, 21 June 1995)
22 July 2010 will mark the centennial of Haroldo Lobo’s birth. For three decades, the songwriter composed a steady stream of carnaval hits, but few people are aware of the way in which he market-tested his sambas and marchinhas before releasing them.
In 1939, Lobo founded the Bloco da Bicharada in his neighborhood bairro of Gávea. This bloco borrowed from the traditions of old ranchos and cordões, which used to parade behind a large animal made of papier-mâché.
Bloco da Bicharada fabricated and stored its animals in the basement of a handsome house on rua Jardim Botânico. Every year, its members came out on the Sunday before carnaval, parading inside gigantic animals amid colorful fireworks and singing a new song composed by Haroldo Lobo. Having gauged the crowd’s reaction to the song, the composer released it for the following year’s carnaval with the assurance that it would appeal to the multitudes.
Shortly after Lobo’s death in 1965, the carnaval chronicler Jota Efegê published an article about Bloco da Bicharada. His article is available on Musica Brasiliensis in Portuguese and in English translation.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Joyce on tour in North America
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge Play Moacir Santos
Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge with special guest Claudia Villela sing and play the music of Moacir Santos.
Mark Levine, piano
Dan Feiszli, bass
Mary Fettig, flute and soprano
Michael Spiro, percussion
Paul van Wageningen, drums
with special guest Claudia Villela, vocals
Saturday, 5 June 2010, 8 pm
The Jazzschool
2087 Addison St., Berkeley CA 94704
Tickets $15
Buy tickets online or call (510) 845-5373.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Guinga’s 60th birthday
Guinga by Carlos Dala Stella
How time flies. On 10 June 2010, Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar, better known as Guinga, will turn 60.
The guitarist and composer has chosen to celebrate this milestone in the southern city of Curitiba, capital of Paraná.
Participating in the birthday concert, which will take place at Teatro Guaíra, will be four of Guinga’s favorite musical companions: clarinetists Gabriel Mirabassi and Paulo Sérgio Santos, and guitarists Lula Galvão and Marcus Tardelli.
The Curitiban artist Carlos Dala Stella designed the program and the sceneries. Visit his blog to see various illustrations of Guinga.
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