Doublereed Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2006/08

From: "harold emert" <harold@-----.br>
Subj: [DR-L] Underprivileged Brazorch going to US
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:46:39 -0400

Thanks Grace...sure I'd love to read it but if you've seen the award winning
Brazilian film "City of God,"with all its shootups among the druggiekids and
traffickers you've seen it all.You couldn't pay me to make a trip to the
favelas... although I've been there for Michael Jackson-Spike Lee's shooting
a video in one and for the visit of Prince Charles to another,
Worse or equal to any slum I knew in back "home" NYC.
Which brings back --speak memory--the day which I will never forget when an
orchestra we had in NYC played in the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant a
Beethoven Piano Concerto and the Overture Russlanda whatever it is.The
slumdwellers loved classical music invading their neighborhood so much that
someone threw a brick from the rooftop and hit my bassoonist Richard R. If
it hadn't hit him,yours truly would have suffered the concussion he
sustained and eventually overcame --I hope--with the years.
So much for romantic visions of slums/favelas!

From: "Grace Tice" <gtice@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Underprivileged Brazorch going to US

> Perfect timing. In today's Houston Chronicle there is an article about
the
> favelas in Rio. Apparently that is a new tourist destination--to see the
> real world on vacation, not just the tourist spots. Harold, if you are
> interested, I'll send you the article.
> Grace
>
> > On 8/6/06 7:09 AM, "harold emert" <harold@-----.br> wrote:
> >
> .They mostly come from the
> >> favelas--or slum--districts surrounding Rio and this new venture has
> >> taken
> >> them away from the lures of drug traffickers into the so-called
classical
> >> musical world.
>
>
>
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