O Povo Newspaper
26/ago//1999
From the beach to Imperial Palace

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From the beach to Imperial Palace

The group "No Olho da Rua" will be presenting its first CD today, with unpublished music of Ary Barroso and Heitor Villa-Lobos. The show happens at 18:00 o'clock in an old Imperial Palace, with free entrance.

The band formed by Paulo Rego, in the sax, Theomar Ferreira, in the drums, Fernando Roza, in the bass and Roberto Alves, in the piano is known for many people for taking the Bossa Nova to open places.

The CD has ten music, most of them is of the own musicians' compositions, except for " O Trenzinho do Caipira ", of Villa-Lobos, " Bahia " and " Shade and Light ", both of Ary Barroso. "Everyday, my father when sitting down to the piano finger it only for the pleasure of feeling the sounds that came it from the soul, that were harmonized and resulted in melodies. This same pleasure I see in these boys, that enchant me on Sundays in the Ipanema Beach. Shade and Shine, that is unpublished, will have a pretty way interpreted by the quality of this group ", said Mariúza Barroso, Ary Barroso's daughter.

Now, Mariúza fights to destine the whole work of Ary to the national culture. For incredible that it seems, the author of countless songs, some immortal, as " Aquarela do Brasil ", " No Rancho Fundo ", " Three Tears ", "Maria ", and " Na batucada da vida ", didn't still wake up interest of culture authorities. O "No Olho da Rua" brings back the hard bossa, movement servant in 1958 where the musicians met in "Beco das Garrafas", bohemian place of Copacabana, to play the rhythm of the moment, and the duel among the instruments resulted rebellious bossa, a little " heavy ", with space for improvisations. So, the hard bossa appeared.

The shows of the band began in Leblon, they went by Ipanema, they proceeded for Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, in the Tom Jobim Park, and now they went back to Ipanema, always on Sundays, from 11:00 AM at 2:00 PM.

In the repertoire, instrumental music of Villa-Lobos, Pixinguinha, Ernesto Nazareth, Donga, Noel Rosa, Ataulfo Alves, Lupicínio Rodrigues, Cartola, Ary Barroso, and other consecrated names of the Brazilian music, like Nélson Cavaquinho, Luiz Gonzaga, Tom Jobim, Dorival Caymi, and Dolores Duran.

 
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