Legions of the Night
By Roberto Muggiati Like the unsung heroes he worships, Fernando Lichti Barros works stealthily — and consistently. In 2010 he published the biography Casé/Como toca esse rapaz! which was awarded the Funarte Critical Production in Music Prize. Now he is out with a new book, Do calypso ao cha-cha-chá/Músicos em São Paulo na década More...
Choral Riffs
By Roberto Muggiati It is a terrible pun, I must admit, but an Oratorio by Bach or a Mozart Serenade usually carries a swing of its own that takes jazzmen straight to heaven. In the year of 2012, I immersed myself More...
Stacey Kent in Curitiba
It’s 5 o’clock in the afternoon on November 29, 2012. As I’m performing a mundane chore around the house, my cellphone rings with my daughter’s name on the display. She surprises me with an invitation to More...
Magical Mystery Tour
By Roberto Muggiati Out of the blue(s), the Beatles took me back to Curitiba – and to 1962’s London. No, my friends, I haven’t dropped any acid, neither have I taken a puff of kief. (“A puff of kief in the More...
All’s Well that Ends in Pizza(relli)
By Roberto Muggiati In Rio you can hear music on every street corner. On a balmy Sunday afternoon — September’s last day — John Pizzarelli gave a “pocket show” at the Livraria da Travessa, More...
Robert Plant
Legendary vocalist Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and his band The Sensational Space Shifters will appear live in Curitiba on October 27 in the Guaíra Theater. The show will combine the singer’s roots in More...
Sight & Sound: Hitchcock & Herrmann
By Roberto Muggiati “Eagles fly alone and sparrows fly in flocks.” - Leo Tolstoy Bernard Herrmann & Alfred Hitchcock After 50 years at the top of the Sight & Sound magazine list of the 50 greatest More...
Alanis Morissette in Curitiba
Alanis Morissette is back in Brazil for a series of concerts that will take her to seven cities. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner with 60 million albums sold, and more than 20 years into her career, Morissette More...
Brazil’s Greatest Classical Guitarist Performs in Vietnam
Fabricio Mattos, one of Brazil’s greatest classical guitarists, gave a performance at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi on June 18. Mattos was born in Curitiba and studied at the Padéia Music School More...
