Choro, a genuinely Brazilian musical genre, also known as chorinho, has been declared a cultural heritage of Brazil, recognizing its significance in the country's culture and history. This genre is ...

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 ...

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Bright, warm, lithesome, sifted through an intermingling of cultures and histories—that is the story of Brazilian choro, abridged. Though lesser known in the United States, bolstering the longstanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...