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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2006/08
From: "cflat" <cflat@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Underprivileged Brazorch going to US
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:21:53 -0400
Hi,
I believe this is the article referred to:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/4090634.html
Charles
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From: "harold emert" <harold@-----.br>
Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 16:36:35 -0300
>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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