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Forró (1998) .​.​. live performance

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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Forró 03:19

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The samba will forever haunt my musical landscape. [I lived in Brazil during the early sixties.] Forró, pronounced "faw-HOH," is a type of samba music from the Brazilian northeast - Paraiba, Pernambuco and Bahia. It is music that has its roots in African, Carribean, and European traditions. It is party music. Legend has it that the word, Forró, came from a bastardization of the English, "For all!" As in, "this is a party for all, for everyone!"

Traditionally, the forró was played by a trio - accordion, triangle and small bass drum. Nowadays, it is often supplemented by modern instruments - woodwinds, brass, keyboards, electric guitar, bass and trap drums.

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released December 5, 2020

First performance by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
May 17, 1998
Sanders Theater, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gunther Schuller, music director.

Music by Thomas Oboe Lee

Photo credit: Thomas Oboe Lee

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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