domingo, 30 de maio de 2010
An old samba
Ludic interlude. Here is a song that cites who is considered the greatest Brazilian physicist, Cesar Lattes (1924-2005): “Ciência e Arte” (“Science and Art”), by Cartola and Carlos Cachaça, released in 1979. It mentions also the great architet Pedro Américo – one scientist and one artist. One can listen Gilberto Gil’s version in his CD “Quanta”, that has some other songs about “science and art”, in a very poetic way – and also a letter from Lattes himself (in Portuguese) that finishes quoting another architet, João Batista Artigas: “When Science clams up, Art talks”. Good listening!
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All of this is in Portuguese. If you don’t speak this beautiful language (yeah, this blog is in English, I know...), well, I cannot translate “Ciência e arte” lyrics – one needs a real English-Portuguese speaker to translate such poetry –, but I can do it with some verses that maybe give an idea of the essence: “You are my Brazil everywhere / either in science or in art (...) The men that wrote your history / have conquered your glories (...) Scientist you have and you have culture (...) There are wise men like Pedro Américo e Cesar Lattes”. Lattes' letter, in its turn, basically calls attention to the scientific meaning of some terms used in the songs.
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