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NBC Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dvorak's Carnaval Overture, Paul Creston's Threnody, Jacques Ibert's Divertissement, finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein.
This time it was a "carnaval do povo" (carnival of the people), concentrated in the back alleys and dance dives, probably the most spontaneous carnival in years.
To strangers the spirit of the carnaval seems like drunkenness, actually it is an elation that has little to do with alcohol. It is carried on the thumping rhythm of the samba, the marchas, and the belligerent batuque, a transplanted African war dance. To these tunes, some lovingly composed and...
Focus of carnaval is swank, tree-lined Avenida Rio Branco. There on Sunday thousands of automobiles (mostly sub-jalopy seven-passenger touring cars) brimming with people in costume drive along in the "Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers...
Banned from this year's carnaval are the sambas with satiric verses that might offend touchy European countries. But one of this year's sambas describes Italians fleeing through the desert, praying to Allah for water. But there is still more than enough fun for the Cariocas and...