{"id":215786,"date":"2019-06-17T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215786"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:14:42","slug":"lebanon-to-be-theme-of-carnaval-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/lebanon-to-be-theme-of-carnaval-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon to be theme of Carnaval tune"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Lebanon will be paid tribute in next year\u2019s Carnaval by samba school Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde. The school\u2019s parade designer Fl\u00e1vio Campello spent a week in the Arab country going places to get to know the country well. The S\u00e3o Paulo-based school will compete in the A-group for the next Carnaval. Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde\u2019s parade last year was themed around cinema (pictured above<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Leite: integration with the Lebanese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Preparations for next year\u2019s parade are beginning for Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde. In an interview with ANBA, Imp\u00e9rio vice president F\u00e1bio Leite said that June 25 will see a synopsis of the theme submitted to the songwriters, so they can work on a theme song. Several sambas<\/em> get composed and recorded over the course of one month, and the winning one gets picked in a contest.<\/p>\n

Leite explains that the idea to focus on Lebanon came up in conversations he and Imp\u00e9rio president Alexandre Furtado had with Lebanese-descendant friends. The school never had a samba<\/em> about any country, and the idea was met with enthusiasm. \u201cAs we learned a bit about Lebanon\u2019s history, we were fascinated,\u201d says Leite. The research proved that the theme would yield a good samba<\/em> and a good parade, according to him.<\/p>\n

The vice president relates that one of the challenges is getting the history of a 7,000-year-old country to fit into 26 or 28 lines\u2019 worth of samba<\/em> lyrics. The songwriters are given ample material on the subject before going to work on the sambas<\/em> that will later rock the Anhembi sambadrome.<\/p>\n

The parade designer was accompanied in his trip by Lebanon\u2019s honorary consul to Brazil, Miled Khoury, and got input from historian Roberto Khatlab. \u201cWe were unveiling new mysteries for the theme somg,\u201d explains Leite. The vice president reveals that the parade will showcase Lebanon\u2019s cuisine, culture, construction and the civilizations that the country was home to.<\/p>\n

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Leite: integration with the Lebanese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imp\u00e9rio is planning to integrate with the Lebanese community in Brazil leading into the 2020 Carnaval. A special area will be created to welcome Lebanon natives and descendants during rehearsals. The samba<\/em> school is also willing to join the community\u2019s events up until next February.<\/p>\n

One of a handful of details F\u00e1bio Leite discloses about the actual parade \u2013 which is yet to be created, and schools will usually keep secrecy \u2013 is that a Lebanese-only section is being considered.<\/p>\n

The summary released by Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde states that 22 civilizations made contributions to building Lebanon, which is known as the country of millennial cedars. At the junction of three continents, it features an ethnic multiplicity that reflects a past forged by the Phoenicians, Hittites, Assyrians, Hebrews, Arabs, Egyptians, Kurds, Turks, Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Europeans and Latin Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people are hospitable and gregarious. At night they will get together to chat, paly cards, tell stories and what happened during the day. They\u2019ll have tasty fruits, sweets, dishes from the unique local cuisine, and some good \u2018Super Brazil\u2019 coffee, which is a tradition in this magical land that\u2019s home to 7,000 years\u2019 worth of history\u201d the summary reads. Entitled \u201cMarhaba, Lubn\u00e3n,\u201d (Arabic for \u2018Hello, Lebanon\u2019), the text asserts that Brazil is the country that\u2019s home to the most Lebanese people in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have a great parade that will conflate the grandeur of Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde and Lebanon, whose migrants brought so much to Brazil \u2013 their culture, art and customs,\u201d Imp\u00e9rio\u2019s president was quoted in a press release as saying. Imp\u00e9rio de Casa Verde is seeking out additional sponsors for Carnaval 2020.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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