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Choro is an instrumental genre of music which dates back to Rio de Janeiro in the late 1800s, when immigrants to the country brought European styles and melodic structures that fused with the native ...

As has happened so often in the past, Berkeley is ahead of the cultural curve. Choro, an instrumental Brazilian tradition that was among the first New World musical styles to combine European ...

For perhaps as long as human society has existed, music has existed with it. As civilizations and empires rose and fell, as republics and autocracies collapsed and were reborn, music was there through ...

“In Brazil, we sometimes say you have to have a big hat to play music,” says clarinetist and saxophonist Nailor “Proveta” Azevedo, a veteran musician best known among international jazz fans as a ...

› What: Choro das 3 in concert.› When: 7 p.m. Friday, July 29.› Where: Robert Kirk Walker Community Theater at Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave ...

Every generation the playfully virtuosic guitar-driven Brazilian style known as choro undergoes a revival, spearheaded by a cadre of young musicians determined to expand and revive a tradition that ...

For the more casual fans, Bossa Nova is the Brazilian contribution to music. But there's more than that, and a background from which the popularization of Brazilian sound began in America via ...

Before bossa nova and samba, Brazilian music was choro. Born in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro, choro started when polkas and waltzes mixed with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Beginning in the early part of ...