Santoro O Homem e Sua Música Filming Locations
Where was Santoro O Homem e Sua Música filmed? Santoro O Homem e Sua Música was filmed in 5 locations across Brazil in the following places:
Santoro O Homem e Sua Música Filming Locations
Brasília, inaugurated as Brazil’s capital in 1960, is a planned city distinguished by its white, modern architecture, chiefly designed by Oscar Niemeyer. Laid out in the shape of an airplane, its “fuselage” is the Monumental Axis, 2 wide avenues flanking a massive park. In the “cockpit” is Praça dos Três Poderes, named for the 3 branches of government surrounding it.
Amazonas is an enormous state in northwestern Brazil, covered almost entirely by the Amazon rainforest. The capital, Manaus, is a river port with landmarks dating to the late-19th-century rubber boom, including the Amazon Theater, a grand opera house. The city marks the "Meeting of Waters," where the blackwater Rio Negro and the Solimões River merge into the Amazon River.
Rio de Janeiro is a huge seaside city in Brazil, famed for its Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mount Corcovado and for Sugarloaf Mountain, a granite peak with cable cars to its summit. The city is also known for its sprawling favelas (shanty towns). Its raucous Carnaval festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant costumes and samba dancers, is considered the world’s largest.
São Paulo, Brazil’s vibrant financial center, is among the world's most populous cities, with numerous cultural institutions and a rich architectural tradition. Its iconic buildings range from its neo-Gothic cathedral and the 1929 Martinelli skyscraper to modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer’s curvy Edifício Copan. The colonial-style Pátio do Colégio church marks where Jesuit priests founded the city in 1554.
Minas Gerais, a large inland state in southeastern Brazil, is known for colonial-era towns dating to the country’s 18th-century gold rush. With cobblestone streets, ornate mansions and baroque churches decorated by the sculptor Aleijadinho, these towns include São João del Rei, Tiradentes and Ouro Preto, the old capital. The famous steam train Maria Fumaça (“Smoking Mary”) links Tiradentes to São João del Rei.
Santoro O Homem e Sua Música (2015)
Santoro- The Man and His Music (75 ', color and B & W, shot in Full HD, Brazil, 2016) is a documentary about one of the most important composers and conductors of the XX century in the world, CLAUDIO SANTORO (1919-1989). After winning several awards in Brazil in 1946, Santoro received a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to spend a year in the United States to study or work at will. The Foundation also offers to disseminate and distribute his work internationally. However, US authorities refused him entry visa to the United States in that it was considered a communist by the Brazilian intelligence services. Throughout a period of fifty years, Santoro composed over 600 works, many of which are produced during his stay in France, the United Kingdom, in the former USSR, Bulgaria and Germany, where he lives in exile between 1969 and 1977. Many important composers like Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez and Aram Khachaturian are among his countless friends and admirers. Twelve-tone, nationalist, abstract, folk, and electronic music, stochastic... Santoro, together with perhaps Igor Stravinsky is one of the most eclectic composers in the world. In the documentary - whose musical director is Santoro' son - also a pianist and conductor, like his father - we chose to show some of the most important pieces for each phase. For three and a half years, we worked together with four orchestras and two chamber orchestras, as well as with musicians in solo, duo, trio, etc. formations. Testimonies of musicians, conductors, musicologists, former colleagues and his family were also collected.