Word: marchas
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...decades Spain's athletes have stood awkwardly on awards podiums, forced to hum their wordless anthem while winners from elsewhere sang their paeans to national glory. In October, the Spanish Olympic Committee, seeking to bring an end to their suffering, launched a competition to put words to the Marcha Real, Spain's official tune since the 18th century. When the contest opened, doubts ran high that a country with so many distinct - and antagonistic - political identities would be able to settle on a single set of lyrics. But when the winning words were leaked to the Spanish newspaper...
...first time that someone has tried to put words to Spain's Marcha Real, a military composition that dates to the 18th century. During the Franco regime, schoolchildren learned a version with lyrics by the anti-republican poet José María Péman, but the words were never officially approved, and they quickly fell out of favor once the dictator was dead. Prime Minister José María Aznar convened a committee of experts during his second term in office (2000-2004) to devise suitably patriotic lyrics, but committee member Jon Jauristi says it couldn...
...musical movements in the last century or so in Brazil. Samba got its start in the early 20th century as many former slaves moved to 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...
...shipshape as the Cervantes steamed proudly into El Ferrol to receive a 21-gun salute from other Spanish vessels and the visiting U.S. warships. Beaming with delight, Franco waved at the U.S. Marines as they presented arms while the Columbus band struck up Spain's national anthem, the Marcha Real...
...Paulo industrialists were different. They rolled down to Rio for a few weeks' fun on beaches, golf courses, race tracks. On Rio's shanty-shingled hillsides, purse-poor cariocas practiced carnival sambas every evening. The catchiest tune of the moment was no samba but a daffy little marcha parodying the United Fruit Co.'s singing commercial (Chiquita Banana) and titled Chiquita Bacana (Hot Baby...