Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most novel works that is sung is "The Rio Grande", an impressionistic work by Constant Lambert. This work, full of rhythms and jazz melodies, will be performed with the Radcliffe Choral Society in the joint concerto to be given in Sanders Theatre on March 6. Another work to be sung at that time is Thompson's "Alleluia...
...Bulging Rio's hotels, together with hundreds of Argentines, thousands of upcountry Brazilians, are about 700 Norteamericanos (including Coca-Cola's James Aloysius Farley), more than carnaval has ever drawn before. For this Rio can thank Nelson Rockefeller in his mouth-filling capacity of Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. Coordinator Rockefeller has worked hard to sell the South and Central American carnivals to the U. S. (see cut), hopes for several times 700 U. S. visitors next year...
Most exacting job in the Rio carnaval belongs to a reporter on the paper A Noite who looks like a Latin edition of Oliver Hardy. For four days each year Senhor San Francisco Cardozo Menezes is carnaval's gaudy, giddy King Momo. In those four days he is on the go from mid-morning to 5 a.m., out in the streets and at balls, drinking champagne by the Jeroboam, singing sambas and shedding some 20 of his 210 pounds...
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 who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
...Making a good will "fishing" trip to Rio...