Investigations

Daniella Thompson

“Dança” by J. Carlos

• Pioneer Women Composers of Brazil
Chiquinha Gonzaga & Carolina Cardoso de Menezes
27 January 2021

• The puzzling origins of “Nova Ilusão”
When two musicians team up to compose a song,
who writes the lyrics?
8 September 2014

• The corporate lyricist
Mangione stands in for Vinicius de Moraes. Why?
29 June 2010

• That sea song
How many tunes are the offspring of “O Mar”?
18 February 2010

• Trio Surdina
The history of a legendary musical group.
by Jorge Mello, 7 August 2007

• Gastão Bueno Lobo
The man who introduced the banjo to Brazil.
by Jorge Mello, 18 July 2007

• A Culpa é do Walt
Como Ernesto Nazareth foi parar
num desenho do Pato Donald.
5 Maio 2004; tradução: 9 Março 2007

• The last king of carnaval is gone
Braguinha is dead at 99.
24 December 2006

• One can always dream
Unraveling the Gnattali-Barbieri mystery.
23 December 2006

• What F. Scott Fitzgerald knew about maxixe
A young novelist looks back on a dance fad.
28 February 2006

• Launching Ary’s songs in the USA
Before Walt, there were Carmen,
André, and Eddy.
24 May 2005

• Ary Barroso in Argentina
An unknown disc surfaces in Buenos Aires.
Might there be more?
8 April 2005

• Blame it on Walt
How Ernesto Nazareth landed
in a Donald Duck cartoon.
5 May 2004

• Happy Birthday, Lalá
Lamartine Babo to the rescue of MPB.
10 January 2004

• The globetrotting Romeu Silva
The saxophonist and his band in France.
17 November 2003

• A portrait of the artist as a young man
Ary Barroso in Poços de Caldas.
7 November 2003

• Ary Barroso’s unknown album
The composer’s first LP
went unnoticed for 50 years.
22 July 2003

• Emperor of the ephemeral
Haroldo Lobo, the king of alegria,
is now best known for “Tristeza.”
18 April 2003

• Haroldo Lobo song lyrics

• The herbal bath
How the young Ary Barroso
found fame and fortune.
17 March 2003

• Untangling the web of “Bambo do Bambu”
An embolada with nine lives.
29 January 2003

• The political side of Ary Barroso
Chamberlain, Hitler, Carmen,
and the mixed salad.
6 August 2002

• Zé Espinguela revealed
In her downloadable monograph
Villa-Lobos, Sôdade do Cordão,
Ermelinda A. Paz sheds new light
on a little-known episode
of the Rio carnaval.
28 March 2002

• The convoluted history of “Linda Flor”
The first samba-canção had
four sets of lyrics, five titles,
and six listed authors.
Which version came first?
27 March 2002

 

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