Noel Rosa centenary page
Thank to all who came to Noel's tribute concert, to our sponsors, our production team and our musicians.
This is the beginning of a series of pages and blogs that will be dedicated to promote our Brazilian music roots. Much more is to come.
This is the beginning of a series of pages and blogs that will be dedicated to promote our Brazilian music roots. Much more is to come.
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*As an arts patron you will become part of this great project and your name will be listed on the website unless requested otherwise.*
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Noel Rosa Centenary Project - December 11, 2010
Noel Rosa “o poeta da Vila”
On December 11, 2010 we’ll be producing a concert honoring our “Poeta da Vila - Poet of the Vila”, Noel Rosa. The event will be at the International House of the University of Chicago. We will build the stage set to resemble a bar from the 1920’s Vila Isabel, all in wood. The musicians will perform seated around tables as in a typical Carioca bar scene. The repertoire will include a selection of the best works of Noel interpreted by the great names of Chicago’s Brazilian artists.
We’ll be publishing a book/program with Noel’s biography, concert program, English translation of his songs. The event will be recorded in audio and video which will serve as a cultural archive to any interested party. The event already has the support of numerous media outlets including Chicago’s well know music critics and columnists.
It is clear that a project like this requires financial support. Although we’re striving to make it self supported, there are inevitable production expenses such as: lighting, sound, set, musicians, etc. and so we are seeking the help of additional sponsors. There are many ways in which you can help. A sponsor may purchase ad space in our program. By participating as a sponsor you or your organization will benefit from extended exposure through media campaigns and promotional efforts directed towards the supporters of “Noel Rosa, 100th anniversary concert.” Cultural institutions and arts patrons may decide to donate directly to the project via http://www.paulinhogarcia.com and all remaining proceeds will go to charity. Financial records will be made available upon request.
The event will be well advertised and we are looking forward to a full house. All the donors will be listed in the program and on this site unless otherwise requested. Sponsor will be acknowledged during the event. In addition to promoting your product/services you will be participating in one of the most important Brazilian cultural tribute of Chicago.
After the concert, this page will be a permanente page of my site featuring all sponsors. The video and a full biography of Noel will be available for download upon request.
We're counting on your support, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you in advance for your willingness to support our efforts and make a difference in our community.
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Production team: Paulinho Garcia
Geraldo De Oliveira - Sergio Gonçalves - Assir Da Silva
Video recording by: Abracadabra video productions http://www.abraprovideo.com/
Sound engineer: Steve Rashid - Woodside Avenue Music Productions
Stage set creation team: Sergio Gonçalves, Mimi Dolnick, Ji Won Grace Kim (artist), Bj Bernardo Simon (artist-cartunist), Rolando Tavas
Musicians: Paulinho Garcia - Don Stiernberg - Heitor Garcia - Geraldo De Oliveira - Dedé Sampaio -Neusa Sauer - Stela Brandão - Dill Costa - Paula Garcia - Luciano Antonio.
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Credits: João da Penha, writer, journalist, broadcaster, for his immense contribution with the history and work of Noel Rosa.
Assir Da Silva : Host
Program book editor: Roberta de Oliveira
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Patrons of Art donors: John and Posy Krehbiel
Anthony Richards
Robert and Susan Ellis
Jim Warner
Linda Binder
Ed Bouchard
On December 11, 2010 we’ll be producing a concert honoring our “Poeta da Vila - Poet of the Vila”, Noel Rosa. The event will be at the International House of the University of Chicago. We will build the stage set to resemble a bar from the 1920’s Vila Isabel, all in wood. The musicians will perform seated around tables as in a typical Carioca bar scene. The repertoire will include a selection of the best works of Noel interpreted by the great names of Chicago’s Brazilian artists.
We’ll be publishing a book/program with Noel’s biography, concert program, English translation of his songs. The event will be recorded in audio and video which will serve as a cultural archive to any interested party. The event already has the support of numerous media outlets including Chicago’s well know music critics and columnists.
It is clear that a project like this requires financial support. Although we’re striving to make it self supported, there are inevitable production expenses such as: lighting, sound, set, musicians, etc. and so we are seeking the help of additional sponsors. There are many ways in which you can help. A sponsor may purchase ad space in our program. By participating as a sponsor you or your organization will benefit from extended exposure through media campaigns and promotional efforts directed towards the supporters of “Noel Rosa, 100th anniversary concert.” Cultural institutions and arts patrons may decide to donate directly to the project via http://www.paulinhogarcia.com and all remaining proceeds will go to charity. Financial records will be made available upon request.
The event will be well advertised and we are looking forward to a full house. All the donors will be listed in the program and on this site unless otherwise requested. Sponsor will be acknowledged during the event. In addition to promoting your product/services you will be participating in one of the most important Brazilian cultural tribute of Chicago.
After the concert, this page will be a permanente page of my site featuring all sponsors. The video and a full biography of Noel will be available for download upon request.
We're counting on your support, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you in advance for your willingness to support our efforts and make a difference in our community.
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Production team: Paulinho Garcia
Geraldo De Oliveira - Sergio Gonçalves - Assir Da Silva
Video recording by: Abracadabra video productions http://www.abraprovideo.com/
Sound engineer: Steve Rashid - Woodside Avenue Music Productions
Stage set creation team: Sergio Gonçalves, Mimi Dolnick, Ji Won Grace Kim (artist), Bj Bernardo Simon (artist-cartunist), Rolando Tavas
Musicians: Paulinho Garcia - Don Stiernberg - Heitor Garcia - Geraldo De Oliveira - Dedé Sampaio -Neusa Sauer - Stela Brandão - Dill Costa - Paula Garcia - Luciano Antonio.
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Credits: João da Penha, writer, journalist, broadcaster, for his immense contribution with the history and work of Noel Rosa.
Assir Da Silva : Host
Program book editor: Roberta de Oliveira
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Patrons of Art donors: John and Posy Krehbiel
Anthony Richards
Robert and Susan Ellis
Jim Warner
Linda Binder
Ed Bouchard
Bio
Noel de Medeiros Rosa
(Dec 11,1910 - May4,1937) was a sing, songwriter and guitar-mandolin player who gave a new twist to samba, combining it’s Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.
Arguably Noel was the best composer of his time but most agree that he was the most important, overall
for his lyrical innovation.
Noel didn't create a new style of samba but he was the pioneer when it came to matching the urban sounds of the asphalt (City) to the best carioca sambas created by his black partners from the slums (Favelas), such as Ismael Silva, Alcebíades Barcelos, Lauro dos Santos (Gradim), Antenor Gargalhada and Heitor dos Prazeres.
Noel wrote some of the most eternal songs of Brazilian Popular songbook, some even more popular today then when they were composed.
Noel Rosa was born in Rio de Janeiro into a middle-class family of the Vila Isabel neighborhood, from which he got the nick name “the poet of the Vila”. An accident with a forceps at his birth caused the disfigured chin that would haunt him throughout his short life. He learned to play the bandolim (mandolin) while still a teenager, and soon moved onto the violão (guitar).
Although Noel started to study medicine, he gave most of his attention to music and spent whole nights in bars drinking and playing with other samba musicians.
Together with Braguinha and Almirante he formed the musical group “Bando de Tangarás”. Soon he started composing sambas, and had his breakthrough with “Com que roupa?”, one of the biggest hits of 1931, and the first in a string of memorable compositions.
In the early 1930s Noel Rosa started to show signs of a tuberculosis. He would occasionally leave for treatment on mountain resorts, but always ended up coming back to Rio and the night life.
Noel was a heavy smoker, and most of his photographs show him with a cigarette hanging from his lower lip. By the later 1930s his health had seriously deteriorated, and he died in 1937 at the age of 26.
Noel Rosa’s importance was already clear during his lifetime. Not only was the volume of 250 songs in a time span of 8 years impressive and enviable, the genius of themusician and lyricist was immense as attested to in the words of Orestes Barbosa, writer, to Nássara, “You know something, Nássara? The guy without a jaw is a genius.”
Noel arrives to the centenary of his birth more mentioned, sung, listened, studied, argued, admired and criticized then in the years immediately following his death, his 8 year career was lived in economic difficulties, one step from poverty.
Noel used his talent to realize in his songs a brilliant social chronicle of Rio de Janeiro, which was becoming rapidly urbanized. He portrayed social injustice throughout the country, politics, and love affairs, as well as the cultural changes brought on by mass media, in particular “talkies” and radio.
"Vocation is needed even to tie your necktie" (Noel Rosa, "My Thoughts" 1929)
"Noel Rosa in the Brazilian popular music may not be the most psychological, the most poetic, the most harmonically adventurous, the most romantic, the most rhythmical or the most realistic, etc.; unquestionably, he is just the greatest Brazilian popular composer" ( Paulo Mendes de Campo, Journalist for Manchete Magazine, 1954)
"Reading those lyrics I ask myself if Noel Rosa wasn't as much as a "sambista" (Samba composer) also a writer and poet" ( Rubem Braga, writer for "Revista da music popular", 1954)
"To me, Noel Rosa was a true genius" ( José Lins do Rego, writer, 1954)
"No one sung Rio better then Noel did" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
"...Noel is a marvelous man, someone who left his mark in my life, determined my passion for Brazilian music. A man who talks about real things. He talks about the bar, about Maria, about cachaça, about the people. Something very Brazilian, authentic..." (Antonio Carlos jobim)
(Dec 11,1910 - May4,1937) was a sing, songwriter and guitar-mandolin player who gave a new twist to samba, combining it’s Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.
Arguably Noel was the best composer of his time but most agree that he was the most important, overall
for his lyrical innovation.
Noel didn't create a new style of samba but he was the pioneer when it came to matching the urban sounds of the asphalt (City) to the best carioca sambas created by his black partners from the slums (Favelas), such as Ismael Silva, Alcebíades Barcelos, Lauro dos Santos (Gradim), Antenor Gargalhada and Heitor dos Prazeres.
Noel wrote some of the most eternal songs of Brazilian Popular songbook, some even more popular today then when they were composed.
Noel Rosa was born in Rio de Janeiro into a middle-class family of the Vila Isabel neighborhood, from which he got the nick name “the poet of the Vila”. An accident with a forceps at his birth caused the disfigured chin that would haunt him throughout his short life. He learned to play the bandolim (mandolin) while still a teenager, and soon moved onto the violão (guitar).
Although Noel started to study medicine, he gave most of his attention to music and spent whole nights in bars drinking and playing with other samba musicians.
Together with Braguinha and Almirante he formed the musical group “Bando de Tangarás”. Soon he started composing sambas, and had his breakthrough with “Com que roupa?”, one of the biggest hits of 1931, and the first in a string of memorable compositions.
In the early 1930s Noel Rosa started to show signs of a tuberculosis. He would occasionally leave for treatment on mountain resorts, but always ended up coming back to Rio and the night life.
Noel was a heavy smoker, and most of his photographs show him with a cigarette hanging from his lower lip. By the later 1930s his health had seriously deteriorated, and he died in 1937 at the age of 26.
Noel Rosa’s importance was already clear during his lifetime. Not only was the volume of 250 songs in a time span of 8 years impressive and enviable, the genius of themusician and lyricist was immense as attested to in the words of Orestes Barbosa, writer, to Nássara, “You know something, Nássara? The guy without a jaw is a genius.”
Noel arrives to the centenary of his birth more mentioned, sung, listened, studied, argued, admired and criticized then in the years immediately following his death, his 8 year career was lived in economic difficulties, one step from poverty.
Noel used his talent to realize in his songs a brilliant social chronicle of Rio de Janeiro, which was becoming rapidly urbanized. He portrayed social injustice throughout the country, politics, and love affairs, as well as the cultural changes brought on by mass media, in particular “talkies” and radio.
"Vocation is needed even to tie your necktie" (Noel Rosa, "My Thoughts" 1929)
"Noel Rosa in the Brazilian popular music may not be the most psychological, the most poetic, the most harmonically adventurous, the most romantic, the most rhythmical or the most realistic, etc.; unquestionably, he is just the greatest Brazilian popular composer" ( Paulo Mendes de Campo, Journalist for Manchete Magazine, 1954)
"Reading those lyrics I ask myself if Noel Rosa wasn't as much as a "sambista" (Samba composer) also a writer and poet" ( Rubem Braga, writer for "Revista da music popular", 1954)
"To me, Noel Rosa was a true genius" ( José Lins do Rego, writer, 1954)
"No one sung Rio better then Noel did" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
"...Noel is a marvelous man, someone who left his mark in my life, determined my passion for Brazilian music. A man who talks about real things. He talks about the bar, about Maria, about cachaça, about the people. Something very Brazilian, authentic..." (Antonio Carlos jobim)