King of Brazilian Music Gilberto Gil in an Acoustic String Concert at Cal Performances
Cal Performances' Zellerbach Hall (Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720)
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All offers for Gilberto Gil have expired.
The last date listed for Gilberto Gil was Wednesday March 17, 2010 / 8:00pm.
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As music director for the famed San Francisco Opera since 2009, Italian maestro Nicola Luisotti has been hailed by audiences and praised by the press. The San Francisco Chronicle even calls him "a blast to watch in action." He leads his acclaimed orchestra in a varied program, including symphonies by Prokofiev and Cherubini and Haydn's Cello Concerto, featuring soloist Amit Peled. Luisotti joined the San Francisco Opera after working with many of the most respected companies in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and La Scala. He also serves as the principal guest conductor for the Tokyo Symphony. Learn More
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Wonderful...I wish there was more translation in English. But, I loved it and the sound was amazing.Written on Apr 14 2010
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Legendary Gilberto Gil did not disappoint. It was wonderful.Written on Mar 27 2010
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It's clear that Mr. Gil has a large, devoted following, and I got the sense that many in the audience had grown up on his music. As a first-time listener, I was impressed by Mr. Gil's musicality and the tightness of the trio. While I can't say the show was the best I've ever seen, it definitely had great moments, especially with the more upbeat songs and the audience sing-alongs. (The audience member with long red hair who graced our aisle with her interpretive dance was pretty cool, too.) Mr. Gil was also great about talking to the audience and introducing the songs, which really adds to the experience for me. Overall I'm glad I saw this show - it was also my first time at Zellerbach Hall, which is a terrific venue with outstanding acoustics.Written on Mar 19 2010
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More Information About Gilberto Gil
Website
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Description
Gilberto Gil plays a leading role in the constant modernization of Brazilian popular music. Having participated in the music scene for 46 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and renowned careers as a singer, composer and guitarist. Mr. Gil has had albums released abroad since 1978, the year of his successful performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Each year, he tours Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan with his contagious pop music sung in Portuguese-Brazilian—a music with a strong rhythmic appeal and melodic richness, as mixed as its people.
Rhythms from the northeast of Brazil, such as baião, along with samba and bossa nova, were fundamental to the development of his style. Using them as a starting point, Mr. Gil forged his own music, into which he incorporated rock, reggae, funk and rhythms from Bahia, such as afoxé. He has tackled a wide variety of social issues in his lyrics—from class inequality to the race question, from African to Oriental culture, from science to religion. The mastery with which Mr. Gil explores these subjects makes him one of the greatest Brazilian lyricists.
Mr. Gil’s importance to the culture of his country goes back to the 1960s, when he and Caetano Veloso created tropicália. Radically innovative in the music scene, the movement assimilated pop culture to national genres; deeply critical on political and moral levels, tropicália was repressed by the authoritarian regime. Both Mr. Gil and Mr. Veloso were imprisoned and subsequently exiled.
In London, Mr. Gil recorded an album in English for the Philips label. When he returned to Brazil in the 1970s, he began a series of anthological records: Expresso 2222, Gil Jorge (with Jorge Ben Jor), Os Doces Bárbaros (with baianos Mr. Caetano, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia) and a conceptual trilogy made up of Refazenda, Refavela (with rhythms from Jamaica, Nigeria, Rio and Bahia) and Realce. The latter, recorded in Los Angeles, became the model for his work in the 1980s. In the 1990s came Parabolicamará, Tropicália 2 (a celebration, with Mr. Veloso, of 25 years of the tropicália movement) and Unplugged (recorded live for MTV). In 1997, the double CD Quanta gente veio ver was released; the next year, Quanta won a Grammy Award. In 2000 came Eu Tu Eles and São João Vivo. In 2002 came Kaya N’Gandaya, a live CD and DVD recorded after a worldwide tour. In 2004, Eletracustico (live CD and DVD) was the result of Mr. Gil’s concert at the United Nations in New York. Mr. Gil was then appointed to serve as Brazil’s Minister of Culture, and he returned to Rio to complete his journey into politics and begin his career as public servant.
In 2006, the Biscoito Fino label re-released Gil Luminoso, a CD recorded in 1999 to be packaged with the book Giluminoso: A Poética do Ser, by Bené Fonteles, an homage to Mr. Gil with more than 50 lyrics by the songwriter, photographs, and a long essay by Mr. Gil. The Gil Luminoso tour, one of the most succesful of his career, traveled to Europe and the United States.
In 2008, Mr. Gil released Banda Larga Cordel, reaffirming his irreversible engagement with the new rules and parameters of the universe of bits and bytes—a subject that has fascinated him for more than 30 years—where Mr. Gil makes his work widely available for webcasts, podcasts, cellcasts, etc. The shows included warm invitations to photograph and film whatever and however one wants. Backstage scenes from the tour were posted on the Internet in diverse platforms from a specially created hot site.
In November 2009, Mr. Gil toured Europe for 32 days (15 shows in 9 countries) with The String Concert, his new show in which he performs with his son, guitarist Bem Gil, and the super-talented cellist-producer-conductor Jaques Morelenbaum to re-imagine acoustic interpretations of his enormous catalog. The String Concert tours North America in 2010.
As Mr. Gil asserts: “The enchanted world of music is made of the miracle of meetings among creators. I have dedicated my life to meeting those with whom I can share my love of music and one day I had the pleasure of crossing paths with Jaques Morelenbaum. He has also dedicated his life to these encounters. We have had a few opportunities to meet and share our love of music together and with others. We are now going to be three: Jaques, myself and Bem, my son, who is starting his career and is in search of his own musical direction. It will for sure be a joy and a pleasure to play together and I will try to give to those who come to see us, an idea of the eternal miracle of the song.”
About the project, Mr. Morelenbaum states: “Gilberto Gil is and has always been a live synonym of the path I have dreamt of crossing in Brazilian Popular Music. The richness of his lyrics, the brightness and swing of his melodies, his unique way of singing, playing and conceiving music result in an inextinguishable light and deep inspiration for the hearts and minds of generations of artists, Brazilian and foreigners. Being closer to him now and sharing the stage with his energy and fuel to embody endless dreams is one of the greatest joys in my life.”
And Bem Gil states: “Oh, what luck; it doesn’t matter if its new, old, green, yellow! Playing with Mr. Gil is always special, this acoustic version is unbelieveable and now with Mr. Jaques! I think that this will be one of the most memorable musical experiences I will have in my whole career, not only for the fact that they are both musical giants but also because this formation will be spectacular! I cannot yet visualize or hear the final result of all this but I am anxiously awaiting!”
Both Mr. Gil and Mr. Morelenbaum have dreamed of this moment since they performed together in 2005, in Nantes, France, and in Riva del Garda, Italy, with local orchestras conducted by the Brazilian maestro, Isaac Karabtchevsky.
In December 2009, a new CD/DVD, Bandadois, was released, recorded live in September at Bradesco Theatre in São Paulo and directed by Andrucha Waddington. Special guests included Maria Rita and Bem Gil on guitar and the youngest in the family, José, who surprised the audience by playing bass on a few songs.
With 52 albums released, Mr. Gil has earned 12 gold records, 5 platinum albums and 7 Grammy Awards, and has sold more than 4 million records. For his unflinching creative engagement in bringing to the world the heart and soul of the Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil has received many awards and prizes in Brazil and abroad, including the Polar Prize in 2005. Mr. Gil is a unique composer powered by immense talent and curiosity—a unique musical ambassador
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