BRAZIL POPULAR MUSIC The choro began in the carioca salons and backyards of second half of the 19th century.Today the vitality of this genre is attested to by the growing public attendance at traditional rodas de choro and young instrumentalists who have discovered in the richness of the choro language an opportunity to exhibt their virtuos
THE UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (UERJ) in partnership with Acari Records and Biscoito FIno published a book collection of scores by the composers who marked ther first yeas of choro whith presentation of Renato Casimirio. Mauricio Carrilho was the responsible for the selection and for arrangeMents of all the compositions published. The project delves deeply inTo The first and richest form of Brazil`s popular music the Choro.
