Zé Miguel Wisnik

• country:
  Brazil
• region or city:
  South America
• style(s):
  MPB
• label:
  Maianga Discos
• type:
  Solist, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Babel Produções Artisticas

Ze Miguel Wisnik (Sao Vicente, SP, 1948) is a professor of Brazilian literature at USP. Speaker at numerous universities and institutions of the country and abroad, he is the author of The Sound and The Sense - Another History of the Music (Companhia das Letras, 1989), Without Prescription - Tests and Songs (Publifolha, 2004) and Poison Remedy The Soccer and Brazil (Companhia das Letras, 2008), among other writings. He recorded three solo albums - Jose Miguel Wisnik (1992), Sao Paulo Rio (2000) and the Little Pearl (2003), and his songs have been sung by artists like Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Djavan, Zelia Duncan, Maria Bethania, Na Ozzetti, Zelia Duncan and Zizi Possi, among others. Wisnik is also the author of soundtracks for ballets of Grupo Corpo - Nazareth, Paralelo (in partnership with Tom Ze) and Onkoto (in partnership with Caetano Veloso) Plays of Theater Oficina and films such as Foreign Land and Windows of the Soul.

Wisnik & Nertrovski

The End of the Song
Ze Miguel Wisnik and Arthur Nestrovski

4-cycle classes shows

Not exactly concerts or proper classes, but a unique blend of two things: bringing together the musical talents, literary and academic composer, singer and pianist (and a professor at USP) Ze Miguel Wisnik and composer, guitarist, writer and critic (and Publifolha editor) Arthur Nestrovski. The performances bring a selection of songs, composing a minipanorama of Brazilian music of the past 50 years.

Each time, Wisnik and Nestrovski center the subject in three or four main songs, performed live and then commented, in contrast to a number of issues and a number of other songs too. "The End of the Song" here wins several meanings: purpose and arrival point, the end of a cycle, and endless purpose. The recent debate about the "death of the song" is the background, and it goes through topics ranging from the formation of the Brazilian songbook to the composing of lyrics and music; passing through the transformative powers of bossa nova and Tropicalia to the new statute of the songs, that have no place in mass culture. The two performers sing and tell our music history, with specific comments to songs by Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Los Hermanos, Joao Donato, Tom Jobim, Luiz Tatit and Gilberto Gil - more Schumann and Schubert - among others, placed by them in the current Brazilian context.

1. Promise of Happiness (Tom / Vinicus, bossa-nova)
2. Samba: mischief and melancholy
3. Unidentified objects (from the tropicalia to the transamba)
4. The end of the song (critical state)

Wisnik, Tatit & Nestrovski

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