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SÉRGIO & ODAIR ASSAD

Friday, January 30 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$26 • Dartmouth students $5

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The Brazilian-born Assad brothers give a ravishing performance, unmatched in guitar artistry and undaunted by technical challenges. With a wide-ranging repertoire from Gypsy folk tunes to Latin jazz, Brazilian and Baroque—as well as pieces composed by Sérgio Assad or written for them by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla—they blend styles, periods and cultures for a dazzling, eclectic concert. The consummate guitar duo has toured and recorded with a roster of international stars and earned a Latin Grammy for their 2002 Nonesuch release of tango-influenced music by Piazzolla. Concertizing virtually non-stop through the Americas, Europe and the Far East, Sérgio and Odair Assad have “such keen empathy for each other, they play as if they were two parts of the same body” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Their Hop program includes a new work by Ralph Towner and a salute to great Brazilian guitarists of the past, including João Pernambuco, Baden Powell and Dilermando Reis.