Word: corcovado
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...There's a certain segregation 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...
...From the peak of Sugar Loaf (which is 1,299 feet high) you can see all of Rio, as well as the neighboring peak of Corcovado, the famous mountain with the huge statue at its peak of Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) with his arms stretched out like he's welcoming you home after a lifetime of really screwing up big time. The statue is visible from pretty much everywhere in Rio. Corcovado inspired Jobim to write the song of the same name (called "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" in English), which even today endures as one of the finest...
...Quiet nights of Quiet stars/Quiet words from my guitar/floating on the silence that surrounds us..." Anyway, I begin to think about the song "Corcovado" again, the October 1964 live version with Astrud Gilberto singing in English (her voice high and light as mountain mist) and Joao Gilberto answering in Portuguese (gentle and soothing as a priest's voice in a confessional) and Stan Getz's tenor sax sweetly flowing through the song like a warm river. "This is where I want to be/here with you so close to me/until the final flicker of life's ember..." It's a song...
...this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself. RUNNERS-UP Corcovado by Antonio C. Jobim; A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
...against conspicuous wealth. The city is broken in half by a mountain range. The Zona Norte is dense, poor and desperately violent. The Zona Sul is laced with fancy apartments, fringed with world-class beaches, home to the rich and the tourists. In between, atop the granite peak of Corcovado, stands the symbol of Rio, a towering statue of Christ, his arms outstretched like a beleaguered mediator trying to keep two street fighters apart...