The series Classics of the Brazilian Choro You are the Soloist! enables you to discover the Choro style through the incomparable experience of performing the compositions yourself, accompanied by a Choro Ensemble. This volume features the works of JOAQUIM CALLADO. Each volume of the series features a famous composer of this amazing music style, including his/her main compositions in a digitally-mastered audio CD and a high-quality printed music book with the corresponding C, Bb and Eb scores, as well as interviews, biography, and relevance of the author to the history of Choro. Using the CD, listen to the complete stereo tracks (with soloists) for your reference. Tune your instrument (flute, sax, clarinet or mandolin) using the tuning notes. Now have fun being the soloist, using the accompaniment tracks featuring a leading Choro Ensemble from Brazil. Now you can play along with your own "Choro Ensemble," which will always be there for you, whether at home, on the road or at the beach. Have fun and good training!
About the Author
1845 The polka arrives in Rio de Janeiro. 1848 The flutist Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado is born. The Rio de Janeiro Conservatory of Music is opened. 1865 Callado meets Chiquinha Gonzaga. 1867 Callado enjoys his first hit with the quadrille Carnival of 1867 . Gets married to Feliciana Adelaide. On June 19 he loses his father. 1869 Callado releases the polkas Querida por todos (Cherished by Everybody) and A sedutora (Seductive). 1870 The maxixe springs up in Rio de Janeiro. Callado creates the group called Choro Carioca (Choro from Rio de Janeiro). 1872 The polka Linguagem do coração (Language of the heart) is published in Rio de Janeiro. 1873 The polka Imã (Magnet) is published in Rio de Janeiro. Callado gives a charitable concert for his friend, the flutist Mathieu-André Reichert and subsequently releases, in a public concert, his Lundu característico (Characteristic lundu). 1875 The polka Cruzes, minha prima! (Gosh, my cousin!) is published in Rio de Janeiro. 1879 Callado is appointed assistant teacher of the Conservatory of Music and is awarded as Knight of the Order of the Rose. 1880 Callado performs at the Teatro D. Pedro II, during the Rio de Janeiro carnival, and dies in the same year. Publication of the polkas A desejada (The much longed for) and A Flor Amorosa (The Loving Flower). 1912 Frederico Figner opens Odeon, the first record company in South America. Pedro de Alcântara and Ernesto Nazaré record Linguagem do coração (Language of the Heart). 1914 Aristarco Dias Brandão makes the first sung version of A Flor Amorosa. Artur Camilo and Agenor Bens record Cruzes, minha prima! . 1920 Choro gathers strength in Rio de Janeiro. 1923 Feliciana Adelaide Callado dies in Rio de Janeiro. 1929 A Flor Amorosa is the first song recorded by the Columbia label in Brazil.
Biografia: Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Júnior foi um músico compositor e flautista brasileiro. É considerado como um dos criadores do choro ou o "pai dos chorões".
