The Project " Going down on Sarrafo, Choro Opus Trio and Guests " is a contribution to the Choro Trio Opus history of Brazilian music , recording and perpetuating the 12 works of the musician and composer Amintas José da Costa, maestro Sarrafo.
The chorus opus trio developed a musical work is entitled "Going down on Sarrafo" which is a tribute to the maestro Sarrafo , Amintas José da Costa, how did this project emerged?
Eduardo Martinelli : In 2001 / 02 the maestro Sarrafo lives in a town called Itanagar and I lived there too . He told me about a chorinhos he wrote, there was a problem in the studio where he was recording, because the former president of the Republic , Juscelino Kubitschek recorded a critical political discourse and military government of the day banned all the stuff they had in the studio, due to that fact. This happened in 1968/69 and the conductor lost those recordings he had made and there were only with the manuscripts of this song and then there were no records of it. From then on we started working on the recovery of the material that was released in 2012 and I think it was a project that united the trio opus chorus , which is very strong and weight . Then , the group ended up turning into orbit with this work , it was his first CD and we believe it will work on these issues for some years.
What is the importance of the musical repertoire of the conductor to Brazil and why a CD dedicated to one person ?
MS: Because it was not just one song, was a collection of musical works of a composer who lived the history of popular music of the twentieth century. Sarrafo is still alive, he is 90 years old and he attended all the movements of Brazilian popular music (BPM ), played with all the great singers, instrumentalists and composers, but what caught the attention is that it was not going to miss a song or two but a collection. It is a beautiful BPM page that could have been blank. If Sarrfo had died at 80 years old all this heritage was lost, I met him at 84 and told me about it and showed the scores , ie , the songs could have disappeared because he was was not behind it. It is a collection of "best off" , has a great importance because they are very beautiful chorinhos are different from those composed of young musicians and composers of our time . He lived a very important stage of BPM and brings with it all, at a time when it was happening.
Explains for those who do not know, what is a chorinho ?
MS: Brazilian Choro is a genre of music that is predecessor of samba. It is the first genre of Brazilian instrumental music that was consolidated , it is from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth . Establish several Brazilian composers like Pixinguinha as the main one and many other musicians who have written for this type of music. Resembles the samba is usually instrumental .
In this album you have recreated with the songs with the helped of sarrafo conductor ?
MS: Yes, when he gave us the melodies, the music he had composed. The part made for recording we had not, we were rewriting the harmony, rearranging the works without losing the characteristic look of what it was originally. The group we recorded was another, had more instruments, the CD has orchestra, violin, clarinet, flute, mandoli , seven-string guitar, a six-string, at the time he did not have all this at hand , because the chorinho has a feature that is to adapt to different configurations. It suffers arrangements and different interventions according to the musical training that has provided, this CD is quite varied .
How was the first concert with the Sarrafo songs ?
MS: It was in the CD release. We took Sarrafo, he was present , there was news coverage very large and inclusive that concert became a television special . Had a very great repercussion and the people of our country that understood the importance of having this copyrighted work and that by an unfortunate coincidence could not have existed .
You are currently are playing the CD all over the world , but what is the next stage for the chorus trio opus ?
MS: Not yet , we're still working a lot with this, we have to do an album of the music sheet to make it available, so they can be disseminated works and still think it was too little played. This project with these songs must be played for a long time , so we're not thinking about another project for now the group is swirling around this work . I even believe that it is more important than the group itself .
