Macunaíma AEC Music and the year had it's

and the year had it's customary smattering of novelty songs

one whose captivating stage presence

only two of them were specifically composed for the oboe

Produced by WDR tenor saxophonist (and CLAASSEN's husband) PAUL HELLER

Macunaíma AEC Music and the year had it'sOne of the high points of Brazil's subversive Cinema Novo movement, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's Macunama (1969) is an anarchic comedy that mixes ancient myths, racial burlesque, and urban guerillas into a hallucinatory masterpiece. Adapted from the classic 1928 modernist novel by Mrio de Andrade, the film follows Macunama, the "hero with no character, " after he emerges as a full size adult from his mother's belly. Born black, he magically turns white