On Silveira's music

On Friday October 31st at 7PM, 2003.

Brazilian-American Cultural Institute,

located in brand new space at 

4719 Wisconsin Avenue, 
Washington, DC 20016-4609

More info at www.bacidc.org

With the honorable participation 

of american poet and dancer BRASH.

A presentation of Guillermo Silveira's recital on 

"Folk Music from Brazil and Argentina in the USA" 

Friday October 31st at 7PM, 2003, 

at the Brazilian American Cultural Institute Auditorium.

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Thursday November 13th, at noon.

Sumner Museum and Archives Auditorium, The Great Hall.

Located at 1201 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC.

A concert lecture recital for the anniversary 
of the World Premier of Argentina Fantastica.

A presentation of Guillermo Silveira's recital 
"Folk Music from Brazil and Argentina in the USA" 

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Wednesday December 3rd, at noon

Sumner Museum and Archives Auditorium, The Great Hall

Located at 1201 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC.

"When a classic pops" A recital on "classical pop" 
and "popular classic music" from Brazil and Argentina.

A presentation of Guillermo Silveira's recital 
"Folk Music from Brazil and Argentina in the USA" 

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On this three Washington DC recitals:

Three recitals by composer, concert pianist, singer, 
and scholar Guillermo Silveira

The 3 recitals, the first recital will take place on Friday 
October 31st at 7PM, at the Brazilian American Cultural 
Institute Auditorium; and the other two noon recitals will 
be presented at The Great Hall of the Summer Museum and 
Archives, located at 1201 17th Street, NW, DC, at 12 PM on 
Thursday November 13th and Wednesday December 3rd 2003. 

The Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (BACI),  located 
in brand new space at 4719 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, DC 
20016-4609, has a multi-purpose cultural space that serves 
as art gallery, concert lecture hall, and screening room. 
It has a Steinway grand piano, a large video screen system, 
and high-quality sound equipment. 

These two assets are excellent for this three nice folk 
cultural activities, including a popular concert lecture 
recital, using video interaction. These performances will 
be extended to other communities nationwide through BACI's 
traveling program. 

In addition, the audience will learn that BACI offers the 
benefit of a 8,000 - volume library in both English and 
Portuguese, a large selection of Brazilian magazines and 
newspaper, a classical and popular record library, and a 
video library, the latter focusing on Brazil's cultural, 
economic, and political life, also including feature films. 

The program includes Brazilian and Argentine folk music 
recognized popularly in the USA and around the world. 
Music from Brazil including authors like Antonio Carlos 
Jobin, Vinicius De Moraes, Joao Gilberto; and Argentines 
like Carlos Gardel, Bocha Gallo, Mariano Mores, and 
Eduardo Silveira. 

The lecture and interpretation of the songs has emphasis 
on the folk traditional songs that influenced popular 
writers and identify the roots of each nations melting pot.

The Influence of African, European and Asian cultures in 
the folk music of Brazil and Argentina is more than eloquent, 
as well as the native South American roots.

Guillermo Silveira will display also visual and documents 
material about Argentine tango, this articles, scores and 
studies are of the heist scholastic and musicological level.

A presentation of a video retrospective 
on Silveira's musical compositions.

            *  Labyrinth of Music Video : Sponsored by D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities


Compression by Dragonfly Communications
 

Sponsored by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
and The National Endowment for the Arts.

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D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Fiscal Year 2001 Grantees

A musical tribute to one of the most important First Ladies of America

At the Corcoran Gallery of Arts

November 2004, TBA

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