09 de junho de 2025
I am always amazed how music takes us into new worlds! For example, this oboist-composer has resided in this tropical paradise called Rio de Janeiro over fifty years because music brought me to Brazil to play with the Or…
27 de maio de 2025
“Theater is wonderful. I love how it enriches our life,” commented one of our party of theatergoers in our Uber as we departed from the downtown Teatro Nelson Rodrigues theater after opening night at the updated, imagina…
17 de abril de 2025
Among the biggest secrets to the outside world (—which only seems to know this planet called Brazil as most famous for samba and Carnaval—) is the long tradition of outstanding Brazilian pianists. Guiomar Novaes, Magdale…
05 de abril de 2025
Does anyone in the younger generation listen to the radio these days? This is my query almost 48 hours after participating in yet another program on Rio de Janeiro´s Radio-MEC Fm ´s “Sala de Concerto” last Friday at exac…
19 de março de 2025
What should a dramatic work, call it a play or film ,be about: a highly dramatic occurrence or the supposed humdrum of every day life? To American writer John (”Rabbit,Run”) Updike and German filmmaker Wim(”Perfect Days”…
16 de março de 2025
Rio de Janeiro The same routine often gets tiring (if not boring) and for this reason your correspondent –although always reluctant to leave his comfortable sofa at home here in Copacabana—gladly accepted Thursday the in…
04 de março de 2025
Since this observer- ( in my earlier years) gourmet is currently in Rio de Janeiro for the city’ s gala Carnaval, my associate (and brother) has graciousy sent me this glittering restaurant review for my Blog Globetrotte…
04 de fevereiro de 2025
Through the magic of internet´s “Meet,” this former cultural reporter, columnist, food, music and theater critic for the now extinct English newspaper in Rio de Janeiro the Brazil Herald, attended Sunday afternoon a reun…
18 de janeiro de 2025
Coincidence or destiny? As we took a taxi here in Copacabana en route to the local oasis of good pop and jazz music, the Blue Note, I didn´t have to ask our driver to lower the sound on the usual awful rap or repetitive…
29 de dezembro de 2024
Trying to catch up with the Brazilian jazz and popular music world after decades of being submerged in the so-called “erudite” music world of Brazil, this observer was a bit embarrassed to sit almost onstage at the Blue…
10 de dezembro de 2024
I couldn’t help thinking as I enjoyed last Sunday (8 December) every minute of” Tom Jobim, the Musical” at Rio de Janeiro´s Teatro Grande —thirty years after Jobim died in a New York City hospital–the apropos words of a…
02 de dezembro de 2024
From the enthusiasm and applause of the packed house at the “Blue Note” nightspot here in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, MPB (reads “Brazilian Popular Music”) singer, guitarist and composer Zelia Duncan,60, is quite popular…
19 de outubro de 2024
My conclusion about life at this late age is that things go in cycles only with variations or “there is nothing new under the sun.” And that´s what I thought on Thursday evening when I attended opening night at what once…
14 de outubro de 2024
Documentaries participating in the current international film festival display that Rio de Janeiro may not be Vienna— where such geniuses of so-called classical music as Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven thrived– but…
27 de abril de 2024
One week before the Material Gal, Madonna and her estimated 1.5 million fans are about to invade the beaches of Copacabana, the theater of Rio de Janeiro´s iconic Hotel Copacabana Palace is hosting a series of young virt…
