{"id":359062,"date":"2023-11-27T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/brasilia-arab-orchestra-performs-for-500-people-audience\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:07:14","slug":"brasilia-arab-orchestra-performs-for-500-people-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brasilia-arab-orchestra-performs-for-500-people-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Brasilia: Arab orchestra performs for 500-people audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The United Arab Emirates Orchestra (<em>pictured<\/em>) performed for the first time in Brazil last Thursday (23) in Bras\u00edlia alongside Brazilian musicians under the baton of conductor and composer Ed C\u00f4rtes, who brough some exclusive pieces to the concert called \u201c<em>Sons do mundo: Emirados \u00c1rabes e Unidos e Brasil em sinfonia<\/em>\u201d [loosely translated as Sounds of the World: UAE &amp; Brazil in Symphony]. According to information from the embassy of the UAE in Bras\u00edlia, 500 people watched the performance in the Teatro Poupex, including some invited diplomats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_339479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339479\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-339479\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/orquestra-emriados-3-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-339479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Authorities watched the performance<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brazilian musicians played and soprano Fatima Al Hashimi performed pieces in Portuguese by Chiquinha Gonzaga and Heitor Villa-Lobos. C\u00f4rtes conducted his original piece \u201cNatura\u201d at an event that also included tunes that brought back\u00a0 to the Arab community in Bras\u00edlia memories of their culture in a musical selection that included both classical and popular pieces.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on the night of the performance, the ambassador from the UAE to Bras\u00edlia, Saleh Alsuwaidi, spoke about the cultural ties between the two countries. \u201cThis initiative strengthens our cultural bond with Brazil, and it\u2019s a way to present the sounds of the Arab music to the Brazilian people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE Orchestra consists of 25 young musicians, most of them from the UAE. It\u2019s organized by the Ministry of Culture and Youth of the UAE to disseminate the Arab culture, develop talents and encourage the cultural and creative industry of the Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concert \u201cSounds of the World: UAE &amp; Brazil in Symphony\u201d brought together musicians from the two countries in a performance of both classical and popular music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":357386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[422,6808,22644,37717,232,16655,30666,1825,46429,28575,16654,16656,34850,5449,2650],"class_list":{"0":"post-359062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-arab","9":"tag-arabe-en-2","10":"tag-brasil-en-2","11":"tag-brasilia-en-2","12":"tag-brazil","13":"tag-conductor","14":"tag-cultura-en","15":"tag-culture","16":"tag-ed-cortes","17":"tag-emirados-arabes-unidos-en","18":"tag-maestro","19":"tag-orchestra","20":"tag-orquestra-en","21":"tag-performance","22":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"wps_subtitle":"Concert \u201cSounds of the World: UAE &amp; Brazil in Symphony\u201d brought together musicians from the two countries in a performance of both classical and popular music.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359062","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\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}