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Minas travels to Brazil annually to record music, perform, and visit with family.
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A Brazilian ensemble of guitar, piano and drums transports the audience to the mountains and valleys of South America's largest country. This compelling program explores the unique Brazilian dance rhythms and the culture of this Portuguese-speaking country. Orlando Haddad and Patricia King Haddad lead this versatile, lively ensemble, introducing students to the culture of Brazil through the Samba, Bossa Nova, and Lambada styles of Brazilian music. Students have the chance to play the percussion instruments used in Brazilian music during a Carnaval celebration.
Students will learn about the roots of Brazilian music, which can be found in three major cultures: Indian, Portuguese, and African. Students will learn about instruments still used in Brazil today, highlighting African music origins and influences that began with the slave trade in the late 1500s and continue to the present day. Africans contributed decisively to the development of both Brazilian rhythm and dance through an extensive array of percussion instruments, and various dramatic dances, including the most famous of all, the samba. Students learn about traditional samba dances, and many of the musical instruments that now are played in Brazil: flute, guitar, piano, violin, cavaquinho (a small guitar), guitar and tambourine.
This assembly includes versions of such popular songs as Só Danço Samba, as well as Girl from Ipanema, both sung by Minas in their signature style that has been polished through years of performing and composing together. Students participate through dance and drumming, learning some basic vocabulary in Portuguese along the way!
The content of this assembly can be expanded upon in Minas’ residency program.