Music
Thomas Lewinsohn
Thomas Lewinsohn: Amplitude to think
Ecologist integrates evolution and physical and mathematical models
Medicine
No breath to catch
Respiratory tract alterations thwart improvement in cases of severe asthma
Humanities
Explaining, only to confuse
MPB found different ways to re-create tropicalistic experimentation
History of science
Even so, sound moves
Galileo's father influenced his son in the search for experimental truth
By Carlos Haag
Mental diseases
Storms of body and soul
Depression and euphoria may damage cells and accelerate aging
A pátria em sons
The man who had to invent a Brazil
Villa-Lobos’ work, much more mere exotic nationalism
By Carlos Haag
Sounds and ideologies
The politics that result in samba music
Samba music was instrumental to Negro awareness in the 1970s
Isaac Karabtchevsky
Isaac Karabtchevsky: The sound of a gesture
Maestro talk about the historical connection of popular music with classical
By Carlos Haag
Music
Songs that go on for ever
The tango, the bolero and the fado remain alive thanks to electronic media
Music
Way beyond the vitória-régia and the vatapá
Villa-Lobos emerges as a major modern composer
By Carlos Haag
Music
The heavy burden of being a national symbol
Biography shows that celebrating Carlos Gomes actually jeopardized him
By Carlos Haag