PROGRAM NOTE BY OLIVIA RODRIGUEZ:
José Ursicino da Silva Duda, Brazilian Dances
Mostly known as Maestro Duda (1935), composer José Ursicino da Silva is a jazz composer, arranger and instrumentalist from Goiana, Brazil. He has conducted various Brazilian orchestras, and performed oboe with the Recife Symphony Orchestra since 1962. He was chosen by the Brazilian Memory Project in 1997 to be the awarded as one of the best twelve arrangers of the twentieth century.
Gizelle is a Brazilian waltz, and is named after the granddaughter of Maestro Duda. At age twelve he composed the second movement, entitled Marquinhos no Frevo, which was originally for jazz orchestra and is dedicated to his grandson. Maestro Duda composed a series of “frevos,” which are dances and musical styles originating from Recifo, Brazil. These dances are mostly associated with Brazilian Carnival, which is Brazil’s annual celebration of the beginning of Lent. The sound of the frevo is supposed to make dancers feel as though they are boiling and bouncing from the ground.
Both movements were arranged originally for trombonist Radegundis Feitosa by Maestro Duda.
José Ursicino da Silva Duda, Brazilian Dances
- Gizelle
- Marquinhos no Frevo
Mostly known as Maestro Duda (1935), composer José Ursicino da Silva is a jazz composer, arranger and instrumentalist from Goiana, Brazil. He has conducted various Brazilian orchestras, and performed oboe with the Recife Symphony Orchestra since 1962. He was chosen by the Brazilian Memory Project in 1997 to be the awarded as one of the best twelve arrangers of the twentieth century.
Gizelle is a Brazilian waltz, and is named after the granddaughter of Maestro Duda. At age twelve he composed the second movement, entitled Marquinhos no Frevo, which was originally for jazz orchestra and is dedicated to his grandson. Maestro Duda composed a series of “frevos,” which are dances and musical styles originating from Recifo, Brazil. These dances are mostly associated with Brazilian Carnival, which is Brazil’s annual celebration of the beginning of Lent. The sound of the frevo is supposed to make dancers feel as though they are boiling and bouncing from the ground.
Both movements were arranged originally for trombonist Radegundis Feitosa by Maestro Duda.
