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World music winds down Earshot
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Seatlle P. I. , World music winds down Earshot >>
By BILL WHITE
SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
(Excerpt) Tuesday's unusual night of Brazilian music began with vocalist Monica
Salmaso's admission that she had learned a new American expression: "sore
throat." A bad cold kept her from expressing her full vocal capacities, but
what she did offer was touching and expressive.
Salmaso limited herself to five songs, three of which were composed by
musicians in their senior years. A tune by a younger musician, however,
showed that the popular music of Brazil has retained a sophistication that
has not been evident in American music since the days of Bacharach and
Mancini. A mournful version of The Beatle's "Blackbird" was no less engaging
for being melodically amended to suit her limited range.
Salmaso ended with a song from Brazil's slave heritage that was more
repetitive, harder-edged and straight-forwardly rhythmic than the sambas and
bossa novas usually associated with that country.
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