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Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Overture
by Katchie Cartwright
Felipe Senna's expansive oeuvre defies genre, encompassing popular, classical, jazz, folkloric, abstract and narrative elements. Music, as he put it, “needs no excuses to thrill and move us...that's why I believe genre and style are not an end--they're just tools with which we take music to wherever we want it to go." Overture is the second release by the composer and pianist's Câmaranóva, a superb chamber orchestra that aims to expand the repertoire and audience for music of ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Câmara Brasileira
by Katchie Cartwright
Câmaranóva is a chamber orchestra dedicated to performing music of living Brazilian composers, with a focus on instrumental music “in its most diverse aspects" (including jazz, folkloric, and popular idioms). Felipe Senna, himself a composer and improviser, is the ensemble's musical director, arranger, and pianist. There are other composer-improvisers in the group, most notably flutist Léa Freire. The ensemble's mission is to present Brazilian instrumental music to a wide audience, in venues that would ordinarily be ...
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