Join us for a lecture/demonstration on Brazilian choro music with master mandolinist Mike Marshall, in partnership with the University of Maryland's Global Communities Living-Learning Program. Marshall will perform some tunes […]
Photo credit: Chris Ubit Join us for a conversation with pianist, vocalist, and composer Amy K Bormet about her work and her upcoming Washington Women in Jazz Festival, which she […]
Nic Gareiss (left) photo credit: Hilary Rees / Becky Hill (right) photo credit: Peggy Brisbane Join us for an open conversation with percussive dancers Nic Gareiss, Becky Hill, and Kate […]
Join us for a conversation with vocalist Alison Crockett about her latest projects in American and Brazilian jazz. On seminal recordings by King Britt, Blue Six, Us3, and a host […]
Join us for an interactive workshop in Irish dance with dancer and dance scholar Kate Spanos, Ph.D., in partnership with the University of Maryland’s Global Communities Living-Learning Program. Participants will […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
In this lecture, Tom Rohde demonstrates how African dances, such as lundu, were combined with the European polca and schottische to create choro, a uniquely Brazilian rhythm. This mixing was […]
In this lecture, Bryan McCann, PhD, talks about choro’s influence in Brazilian music and society. Choro musicians, who were virtuosic by necessity, became the go-to studio musicians in the early […]
In this lecture, Andy Connell, PhD, discusses the similarities between American jazz and Brazilian choro. He also presents the work of Hermeto Pascoal, one of Brazil's most eccentric, prolific, and […]
Many of the early great composers and performers of the choro genre were Afro-Brazilians, like Patapio Silva and Pixinguinha. In this lecture, Ceylon Mitchell talks about Pixinguinha, the father of […]
