Glossary: The City Of Rio De Janeiro
Glossary - The City of Rio de Janeiro
The state capital of Rio de Janeiro, so often sung in prose and verse, famous worldwide for its natural beauty and friendly people—carioca—is also the nation’s main cultural center and one of the largest financial hubs in the country. Its economy is based especially on tertiary and financial sectors, foreign trade, media, and tourism.
Furthermore, the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro shelters the Brazilian headquarters of major international companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, Souza Cruz, BMG, PolyGram, Ishikawajima, Merck, Michelin, Sony, Texaco, IBM, Unisys, Xerox, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's.
Large national companies are also based in the state capital of Rio de Janeiro such as Petrobras (Petróleo …show more content…
Pagode, another samba genre, differs from the traditional samba by presenting a rhythm manemolente in a cadence more suitable to ballroom dance. Bossa Nova: It is the most influential musical genre on the international scene. It is a combination of samba and jazz, stressing the beats in a syncopated manner, making use of dissonant chords of passage. The rhythmic and melodic characteristics of bossa nova were introduced by the composer Johnny Alf in 1953, with his song Rapaz de Bem. He greatly influenced now well-known names in Brazilian popular music, such as João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Sérgio Mendes and Tamba Trio.
From the bossa nova concert, organized in 1962 at the Carnegie Hall Theater in New York, this type of music has become an international success, being recorded by renowned jazz musicians worldwide, and even by the famous Frank Sinatra, who greatly admires Tom Jobim's …show more content…
Privatization of Marina da Glória: Currently, under the responsibility of Riotur, the Rio de Janeiro Tourism Company, the Marina is located south of Enseada da Glória less than 100 meters from the seafront and 1,320 meters away from Santos Dumont Airport. It can shelter 534 watercraft. It offers ground facilities such as guard services, maintenance, shopping, nautical safety, parking, restaurant, among others. The project aims to privatize this complex, encouraging its revitalization, expansion of its capacity and its suitability for the 2004 Olympic Games.
Projeto Rio-Cidade: It targets the embellishment of the urban landscape and the infrastructure improvement of Rio de Janeiro city, through recovery and transformation of worn out areas, turning them into streets, parks, and recreation centers that provide welfare and comfort to their users, yet revitalizing these areas from an economic point of
The state capital of Rio de Janeiro, so often sung in prose and verse, famous worldwide for its natural beauty and friendly people—carioca—is also the nation’s main cultural center and one of the largest financial hubs in the country. Its economy is based especially on tertiary and financial sectors, foreign trade, media, and tourism.
Furthermore, the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro shelters the Brazilian headquarters of major international companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, Souza Cruz, BMG, PolyGram, Ishikawajima, Merck, Michelin, Sony, Texaco, IBM, Unisys, Xerox, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's.
Large national companies are also based in the state capital of Rio de Janeiro such as Petrobras (Petróleo …show more content…
Pagode, another samba genre, differs from the traditional samba by presenting a rhythm manemolente in a cadence more suitable to ballroom dance. Bossa Nova: It is the most influential musical genre on the international scene. It is a combination of samba and jazz, stressing the beats in a syncopated manner, making use of dissonant chords of passage. The rhythmic and melodic characteristics of bossa nova were introduced by the composer Johnny Alf in 1953, with his song Rapaz de Bem. He greatly influenced now well-known names in Brazilian popular music, such as João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Sérgio Mendes and Tamba Trio.
From the bossa nova concert, organized in 1962 at the Carnegie Hall Theater in New York, this type of music has become an international success, being recorded by renowned jazz musicians worldwide, and even by the famous Frank Sinatra, who greatly admires Tom Jobim's …show more content…
Privatization of Marina da Glória: Currently, under the responsibility of Riotur, the Rio de Janeiro Tourism Company, the Marina is located south of Enseada da Glória less than 100 meters from the seafront and 1,320 meters away from Santos Dumont Airport. It can shelter 534 watercraft. It offers ground facilities such as guard services, maintenance, shopping, nautical safety, parking, restaurant, among others. The project aims to privatize this complex, encouraging its revitalization, expansion of its capacity and its suitability for the 2004 Olympic Games.
Projeto Rio-Cidade: It targets the embellishment of the urban landscape and the infrastructure improvement of Rio de Janeiro city, through recovery and transformation of worn out areas, turning them into streets, parks, and recreation centers that provide welfare and comfort to their users, yet revitalizing these areas from an economic point of