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...Gene Lees, the lyricist who worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim on English-language adaptations of such bossa nova classics as "Desafinado" and "Corcovado" once commented that Brazilian songwriters tend to endlessly rhyme the words "song," "guitar" and "heart" - which actually do rhyme in Portuguese, cançao, violao and coraçao, respectively. Having attended the first week of Rock in Rio, having seen an endless procession of Brazilian bands, having heard an endless series of Brazilian songs, sweated under Brazilian sunlight, eaten Brazilian food, danced (or attempted to dance) Brazilian dances, I think I've gotten some idea...
...much better selection would have been Gore and Bush as People of the Year. Both men made their mark on our country's history in 2000, but you chose the man who ascended to the presidency by keeping votes from being counted. Extremely disappointing. GINA MAXWELL ULBERT San Antonio, Texas...
...central Rio, taking with them their traditions of batucadas (percussion jams) and fusing the rhythms with influences from more formal musical genres such as marcha and maxixe. In the '50s there was the bossa nova, a cooler, more streamlined genre partly derived from samba that was championed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. And in the mid-'60s, in the wake of the Beatles and psychedelia and political oppression in Brazil, there was Tropicalia, a free-spirited take on music that mixed indigenous rhythms with electric rock instrumentation, wild dress, playfully surreal lyrics and fierce individualism. And also...
...when it comes to megashows to give foreign performers more credit," says de Castro. Rock in Rio, he believes, will place Brazilian acts alongside big foreign stars where they belong. That day, I decided to take a train ride up to the summit of Corcovado, the famous peak that Antonio Carlos Jobim celebrated in song...
...first places we pass by is the site of the old Garota de Ipanema, the Brazilian bar that was named in honor of the famous song "The Girl from Ipanema," which Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes wrote in 1962. From my seat on the bus, I can't actually see the sign for the bar, but I recognize the outside from pictures. It turns out there actually was a "girl from Ipanema," Heloisa Eneida Pinto, and she used to stroll "like a samba" past the bar every so often on her way to Ipanema Beach, and her "tall...