As has happened so often in the past, Berkeley is ahead of the cultural curve. Choro, an instrumental Brazilian tradition that was among the first New World musical styles to combine European ...

A festive concert of Brazilian choro music will be performed on Friday, June 16, in Elmhurst. Choro is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre, which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro.

› What: Choro das 3 in concert.› When: 7 p.m. Friday, July 29.› Where: Robert Kirk Walker Community Theater at Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave ...

Choro is an instrumental genre of music which dates back to Rio de Janeiro in the late 1800s, when immigrants to the country brought European styles and melodic structures that fused with the native ...

For perhaps as long as human society has existed, music has existed with it. As civilizations and empires rose and fell, as republics and autocracies collapsed and were reborn, music was there through ...

Like its organic natural wonders, the music of Brazil seems to flourish in different forms and styles of beauty. But much of its music has grown from the root of choro: Born in the mid-to late-1800s ...

Every generation the playfully virtuosic guitar-driven Brazilian style known as choro undergoes a revival, spearheaded by a cadre of young musicians determined to expand and revive a tradition that ...

For the more casual fans, Bossa Nova is the Brazilian contribution to music. But there's more than that, and a background from which the popularization of Brazilian sound began in America via ...

The Department of Music at Hope College will feature Choro das 3 on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. The public is invited. Admission ...

The Department of Music at Hope College will feature Choro das 3 on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. The public is invited.

Musicians from across the country are meeting in New Orleans this week in a celebration of choro, the bright, airy Brazilian genre sometimes called the grandfather of bossa nova. A little closer to ...