Brazil 58
BRAZIL 58 establishes a time and place—1958 Brazil—to show how the streets connect with the concert hall. At that moment, musical innovations like the birth of bossa nova reflected a rare optimism, one born of a concord between classes and a notion of a “modern” future. At that moment, the refined music of bossa nova kings João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim emerged glimmering from Brazilian folk rhythms. They overlap with the dynamic new-world modernist Heiter Villa-Lobos, who died the next year, after spending a lifetime delving into those same fecund folk roots.
