As part of the 102 -year celebration of Radio MEC, the station features a new episode of the Roda de Choro program this Sunday (7), at 20h. The attraction makes room for one of the most dancing formations of the music genre in Rio de Janeiro: the joint drumming, led by conductor Eduardo Neves.
In the program, the instrumentalists who make up this swung crying wheel present a repertoire that unites immortal classics with copyright works. The recording was made at the studios of Rádio MEC, at the headquarters of Brazil Communication Company (EBC), in Rio de Janeiro.
The musicians participate in this edition: Eduardo Neves, Kiko Horta, Aquiles Moraes, Antonio Neves, Luis Felipe de Lima, João Buíde, Gabriel Lôdo, Lucas Videla, Bernardo Aguiar and Jovi Joviniano.
The repertoire presented during the program includes: Burn (Eduardo Neves/Rodrigo Lessa), Black tongue (Honorino Lopes), Marilene (Benedito Lacerda/Pixinguinha), Quizás, Quizas, Quizás (Osvaldo Farrez), A chorinho in Cochabamba (Eduardo Neves/Rogério Caetano), Dangerous (Orlando Silveira/Esmeraldino Sales), It’s worth everything (Jacob do Mandolim), Zinc shed (Luiz Antonio/Oldemar Magalhães), Solon Prowel (Pixinguinha/Benedito Lacerda), Maxxie accessible (Eduardo Neves) and But that rich chinoquinha (Eduardo Neves).
About the program
The Program Roda de Choro da MEC Radio It presents classic and contemporary artists that make crying a respected Brazilian musical style around the world for its originality and sophistication. The production is made with group recordings, musicians and composers, live in the studio.
102 years of MEC radio
THE MEC Radioolder broadcaster in operation in the country and one of the pioneers of world broadcasting, turns 102 on Sunday. Created in 1923 as Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, the station was designed by a group of scientists and educators led by Edgard Roquette-Pinto, with the objective of using radio as a tool for education and cultural diffusion.
The program is dedicated to classic concerts, intellectual debates, educational programs and transmissions of cultural events, becoming a reference on the Brazilian radio of content focused on the cultural enrichment of the public. Names like Fernanda Montenegro, Cecilia Meireles, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira have already collaborated with the station.
Radio MEC Today
Known from north to south of the country as “The Radio of Classical Music of Brazil”, the MEC Radio It is consecrated by the public for its vocation directed to concert music. The traditional station dedicates 80% of the programming to classical music and brings to the air Brazilian and international composers of all time.
The station can be tuned by FM 99.3 MHz and AM 800 kHz frequency in Rio de Janeiro. The dial of MEC Radio In Brasilia is in FM 87.1 MHz and AM 800 kHz. The public also follows the programming in Belo Horizonte at FM 87.1 MHz frequency. The content is still aired in the EBC Radios app.
Listeners have guaranteed participation and can collaborate with suggestions for the programming of Radio MEC. The public can interact through social networks and WhatsApp. To do this, it is enough for interested parties to send text messages to (21) 99710-0537.
