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Alceu Maia

  • Genre: World
  • Instrument: Arranger, Producer, Guitar
  • Representative Album: "Choros E Bossas"

Biography

Spotted by Beth Carvalho, who invited him to join her band, Alceu Maia (aka Alceu Cavaquinho and Alceu do Cavaco) was one of the members of the A Fina Flor do Samba, which was Carvalho's supporting group and also developed a solo career. A Sharp Prize winner (as best arranger), Maia also was awarded with a Brahma Extra trophy and a Cinco Estrelas trophy as an instrumentalist. His resumé includes works for Chet Baker and Dionne Warwick. Since 1975 a busy session man, Maia has been playing for top acts like Cartola, Chico Buarque, João Bosco, Elizeth Cardoso, Paulinho da Viola, Clara Nunes, Nélson Gonçalves, Bezerra da Silva, Toquinho, and Elba Ramalho. He also has toured internationally (through Europe, the U.S., Africa, and Latin America) with Paulo Moura (at the Berlin Festival), Ivan Lins, Roberto Menescal, Leila Pinheiro, and Joyce. As the soloist of his group Alceu Maia & O Choro Elétrico, he performed at the Montreux Festival (Switzerland). He was the producer of the hit "Voa, Canarinho, Voa" (the song used in the Brazilian soccer team campaign in the World Cup, sung by the player Júnior). Maia also produced the high-selling carnival records of the champion samba schools. As a composer, he has had over 100 songs recorded by Leci Brandão ("Talento de Verdade," written with Brandão, and "Fogo no Ar," with Jorge Aragão), Emílio Santiago, Alcione, Demônios da Garoa, Jair Rodrigues, Mestre Marçal, and Agepê, among others. Maia also participated both in the show and the album Getz Bossa Nova, released in Japan, with Gilberto Gil, Leila Pinheiro, and Marcos Valle. As a soloist, he recorded, among other albums, the CD Brasil Chorinho with classics of choro. ~ Alvaro Neder, All Music Guide

A Member of the Group:

A Fina Flor Do Samba

Worked With:

Bernardo Bessler, Paschoal Perrota
 
 
Wikipedia: Maia (mythology)
God council: Hermes and Maia, detail of an Attic red-figure amphora, ca. 500 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2304)
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God council: Hermes and Maia, detail of an Attic red-figure amphora, ca. 500 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2304)

Maia[1] in Greek mythology, was the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas[2] and Pleione[3]. She and her sisters, born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, are sometimes called mountain goddesses, oreads, for Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" (Maia oureias) "of the lively black eyes".[4] Maia was the oldest, most beautiful and shyest. She was also identified with Gaea.

She and her sisters were pursued by Orion, and turned into doves to preserve their safety.[5] According to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Zeus in the dead of night secretly begot Hermes upon Maia, who avoided the company of the gods, in a cave of Cyllene. After giving birth to the baby, Maia wrapped him in blankets and went to sleep. The rapidly-maturing infant Hermes crawled away to Thessaly, where by nightfall of his first day he stole some of Apollo's cattle and invented a lyre. Maia refused to believe Apollo when he claimed Hermes was the thief and Zeus then sided with Apollo. Finally, Apollo exchanged the cattle for the lyre.

Maia also raised the infant Arcas[6] to protect him from Hera, who had turned his mother, Callisto, into a bear. Arcas is the eponym of Arcadia.

In Roman mythology Maia was identified with Maia Maiestas (also called Fauna, Bona Dea (the 'Good Goddess') and Ops), a goddess who may be equivalent to an old Italic goddess of spring. The month of May was named for her; the first and fifteenth of May were sacred to her. On the first of May the flamen of Vulcan sacrificed to her a pregnant sow,[7] an appropriate sacrifice also for an earth goddess such as Bona Dea: a sow-shaped wafer might be substituted. The goddess was accessible only to women; men were excluded from her precincts.

Notes

  1. ^ The alternative orthography Maja simply uses long i between two vowels, similar to Pompeji or Sequoja.
  2. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 938; Hymn to Hermes
  3. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 3.110.
  4. ^ Simonides, Fragment 555.
  5. ^ Hesiod, Works and Days 619ff.
  6. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 3.101.
  7. ^ See Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Saturnalia I.12; Juvenal, Satires ii.86; Festus 68

References

  • Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911.

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