Product Description
Written in 1943, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Invocação em Defesa da Pátria (religious civic song), by Heitor Villa-Lobos, presents the following movements: Poco andante, rallentando (gradually slower), a tempo, largo con surdina, rallentando, a tempo, via surdina, ritenuto.
Written by the poet Manuel Bandeira, the lyrics of the religious civic song begin with the following verses:
Ah! Oh nature of my Brazil! Proud mother of a free race, your existence, your greatness, your existence, your greatness.
Presented for the first time (not the song's premiere), on 11/20/1995, by the Banco do Brasil Employees' Choir, with soprano Marivi Santiago as soloist, under the baton of maestro Alfredo Duarte, in the Auditorium of the SEDAN Building Banco do Brasil Rua Senador Dantas, 105 - 21st floor, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, on the occasion of the opening of the 1st Banco do Brasil and Social Integration Seminar, Invocação em Defesa da Pátria, by VillaLobos, is the official anthem for the opening of said seminar.
About the arranger
Fillipe Mendel has been immersed in music since he was a child. Coming from a Portuguese family, he believes that music can and should tell a story and, as such, he is the composer and arranger of over hundreds of religious, classical and contemporary songs. Speaking of stories, he also often writes romantic suspense novels. He currently lives in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo.
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