from Wikipedia: redifining the samba in Mahlerian terms

[barry guerrero]

Regarding Mahler 8:

On August 26, 2006, about 90,000 people witnessed a free performance billed as the "first-ever outdoor presentation". It was given on a specially constructed stage on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky leading 412 choral singers, 8 soloists and 171 instrumentalists. It included amplification, lighting, and video screens to accompany the symphony, marking a cultural achievement. (By coincidence, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the same symphony on the same evening (of the "first-ever outdoor presentation") at Berwaldhallen (Berwald Hall) in Stockholm, as the concluding event at the Baltic Sea Festival

[Ivor]

  Wish I'd been there, even if m8 isn't top of my M-tree.


     Ivor