"Roda de choro" with the Choro Club of Paris

Name: "Roda de choro" with the Choro Club of Paris
Start: 2023-09-17T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Ambassade du Brésil - Hôtel Schneider

It is impossible to separate music and cultural heritage in Brazil – the Embassy has therefore organised a little "roda de choro" for you on Sunday 17.09 at 11.30 with students and teachers from the C

Sunday 17 September 2023, 11:30Passed

Conditions

Free access, subject to availability (capacity = 60 people). Free entry, without reservation. For further information, please contact [cultural.paris@itamaraty.gov.br](mailto:cultural.paris@itamaraty.gov.br)

It is impossible to dissociate music and cultural heritage in Brazil – the Embassy therefore organized a small "roda de choro" for you on Sunday 17.09 at 11.30 am, with students and teachers from the Choro Club of Paris. Now widely used and appreciated in France, this style of instrumental music was born in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the nineteenth century - long before bossa nova and samba. If its name – which comes from the verb «chorar» - «to cry», or «to lament» - refers to melancholy, the choro is a living adaptation of European polkas, which it marries with the rhythmics of African music. This is perfect to complete the visit to the Schneider Hotel, which has been home to the Brazilian Embassy for over 50 years.
For more information on the Choro Club and its annual music festival:
http://festivaldechorodeparis.org
https://clubduchorodeparis.org/wp/

About the location

Ambassade du Brésil - Hôtel Schneider

34 cours Albert-Ier 75008 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Since 1971, the Brazilian embassy in Paris has occupied a mansion that belonged to the Schneider family, industrialists of the Creusot steel industry. Located in a protected area of a historic monument, within an urban complex listed in the inventory of historic and picturesque sites of Paris, the Hotel Schneider is located on the right bank of the Seine, in the 8th arrondissement, between the Pont de l'Alma and the Pont des Invalides. The building, built in the first half of the 19th century in the eclectic style of the Second Empire, underwent major restoration and expansion work around 1900, commissioned by the Schneider family to Ernest Sanson, the favourite architect of the great families of the time. The public will have the opportunity to discover the exterior and interior of this beautiful example of emblematic architecture of Paris, to know its intimate history by visiting its reception rooms, and to appreciate paintings, photographs, tapestries and sculptures by renowned Braz