Braziliana (ballet Musical)
Braziliana may refer to: *Things to do with Brazil *''Braziliana'', Ballet-musical from Rio de Janeiro 1953 in music * ''Braziliana'' (album), by Luiz Bonfa and his wife Maria Toledo 1965 *''Braziliana'', album by Manfredo Fest Manfredo Irmin Fest (May 13, 1936 – October 8, 1999) was a bossa nova and jazz pianist, keyboardist, and bandleader from Brazil. Legally blind, he was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and he died at 63 years old in Tampa Bay, ...

Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ...
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1953 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1953. Specific locations * 1953 in British music * 1953 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1953 in country music * 1953 in jazz Events * February 6 – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, already terminally ill with cancer, leaves Covent Garden Opera House in London on a stretcher after being taken ill on the second night of her run-in Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice''. * March 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister's opera ''Romeo and Juliet'' receives its English première at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, conducted by James Robertson. *April - Pat Boone begins his recording career at Republic Records. *May 26 – Werner Meyer-Eppler, Fritz Enkel, Herbert Eimert and Robert Beyer open a pioneering electronic music studio at the Cologne studios of the NWDR. *July 16–29 – The Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik are held at Darmstadt. *July 18 – Elvis Presley's Sun recordings: Elvis Presley makes his first reco ...
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Braziliana (album)
''Braziliana'' is a 1965 album by Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfá and his wife, singer Maria Toledo, of songs mainly composed by Bonfá and Toledo, produced by Bobby Scott. The backing musicians included drummers Hélcio Milito and Dom Um Romão. Stereo Review accorded it a Recording of Special Merit.Stereo Review, 1966 "Recording of Special Merit" The album was recorded after the success of the 1964 Getz/Gilberto album, and increased interest in samba and bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovativ ... in Europe. After being out of print for many years the LP was reissued as CD in the Verve Originals series in 2008. Track listing :A1 "Whistle samba" – Bonfá with Toledo ( vocalise – no lyrics) :A2 "Tanto amor" – Bonfá, Reinaldo Dias Leme :A3 "Samba de Orfe ...
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