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Welcome to Intermezzo from Interlochen Public Radio, where we take a few minutes to bounce some ideas around about classical music.
Christy L'Esperance is cohosting with Peter Parra, a Lang Lang Young Scholar pianist who also happens to be a top ten national ranking competitive junior ballroom dancer.
This week, we'll learn about Latin Dances. Yesterday, we learned about the Cha-Cha. Today, we'll be exploring the Samba.
The Samba was one of the five dances Peter and his dance partner Sophia would perform at competitions. Luiz Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus. Here's a samba from that film, performed by Luiz Bonfa himself.
Luiz Bonfa - Samba de Orfeu
This week's Mystery Melody
It's time to test your ears. Each week we have a mystery melody that we have to figure out together. It relates to our topic. (We'll make the melody less mysterious each day.)
If you know the mystery melody, text your name and the title and we’ll give you a shout out on Friday. The number to text is (833) 490-4718.
