Leonardo L\u00eanin*<\/STRONG><\/P> S\u00e3o Paulo – Technical domination of the instrument and fine-tuning in interpretations by guitar players and brothers S\u00e9rgio and Odair Sim\u00e3o Assad win the world. The Assad Duo, made up of these two Lebanese descendants from the southeastern Brazilian state of S\u00e3o Paulo, is frequently considered the best duo of acoustic guitar players in the world. They revitalized the instrument mixing classical and instrumental popular music. The Duo will have two presentations at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre, at 01:00 pm and 09:00 pm, in Brazilian capital Bras\u00edlia on May 10. The concerts are part of the events to take place in parallel to the summit between Arab and South American countries.<\/P> The repertoire will include works by composers famous for creations for the guitar, like Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the famous classical composer Maurice Ravel. The music by Brazilian maestro and composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, whose entire works for the guitar were recorded by the brothers, will be present with Alma Brasileira (Choro n\u00ba 5). Music by other Brazilian musicians like Egberto Gismonti and Jacob do Bandolim, apart from compositions by S\u00e9rgio Assad will also be played.<\/P> The brothers, still less known than their sister, Badi Assad, who is an acoustic guitar player, percussionist, composer and singer, started learning their first chords when they were still small, S\u00e9rgio at the age of 12 and Odair at the age of 8. They were brought up in a more than musical environment, accompanying their father, Jorge, a popular mandolin player, who greatly appreciated the typically Brazilian chorinho, the first style played by the brothers, and their mother, Ika, a singer. The family of musicians was the subject of Su\u00edte Assad, a short movie by Joel Pizzini, in 2002. <\/P> The fine-tuning between the two brothers, which has already been called musical witchery, attracted the attention of many composers who wrote music especially for the duo. Some of these South American composers are Brazilian Radam\u00e9s Gnattali and Argentine Astor Piazzolla, whose Invierno Porte\u00f1o and Zeta will be played by the duo on the 10th. With few presentations in Brazil, as S\u00e9rgio lives in Chicago and Odair in Brussels, Bras\u00edlia will have a chance to listen to the duo that has impressed the world of instrumental music.<\/P> Guitar presentation *Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Assad Duo, made up of two Brazilian brothers of Arab descent, S\u00e9rgio and Odair Sim\u00e3o, will play twice at Brazilian capital Bras\u00edlia next Tuesday, on the day of the opening of the summit between Arab and South American countries. They are considered the best duo of acoustic guitar players in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture"},"wps_subtitle":"The Assad Duo, made up of two Brazilian brothers of Arab descent, S\u00e9rgio and Odair Sim\u00e3o, will play twice at Brazilian capital Bras\u00edlia next Tuesday, on the day of the opening of the summit between Arab and South American countries. They are considered the best duo of acoustic guitar players in the world.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
S\u00e9rgio and Odair Sim\u00e3o Assad
<\/STRONG>May 10th, at 01:00 pm and 09:00 pm
Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre
Bras\u00edlia<\/P>