Samara Perucci and Marco Antônio de Souza, students of the Instituto Moinho Cultural Sul-Americano (South American Moinho Cultural Institute) in Corumbá, who take part in the Programa Vale Música (Vale Música Program), participated in the recording of “Enquanto Houver Sol,” a hit by Titãs chosen as the theme of the Criança Esperança 2021 (Hopeful Child 2021) campaign, from TV Globo.
The films of the new phase of the campaign have a soundtrack recorded by the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Brazilian Symphony Orchestra), with the participation of young music students supported by Conexões Musicais, a social responsibility project of the Fundação Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, and by Criança Esperança itself.
Luan Santana lends his voice to perform Sérgio Britto’s song for the pieces aired during breaks in Globo’s channel programming.
Marco Antônio, 10, plays violin and says he was happy to learn he had been chosen as one of the children selected. “I dedicated myself a lot in rehearsals so I could honor the joy of representing the Instituto Moinho Cultural at Criança Esperança,” he says.
The same feeling is shared by Samara, 13, a flute student. “I felt very honored to have been chosen among so many children; it’s a source of pride to carry such a worthy institution in my heart, like Moinho Cultural.”
The Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira is one of the partner institutions of the Programa Vale Música, a collaborative teaching and learning network made up of music projects developed in Mato Grosso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Pará by Vale and by the country’s largest orchestras, sponsored by the Instituto Cultural Vale through the Cultural Incentive Law.
Due to the pandemic, the music students’ participation was recorded remotely. In all, there were 20 young people, supported by nine projects spread across five Brazilian states.
Each of the social projects that receive regular mentoring from OSB musicians contributed two students for the recording.
“The meeting of Conexões Musicais with Criança Esperança, for us, is like the meeting of the river with the sea. It is as if we had been preparing over these 80 years of the institution to reach this moment when the music cultivated in children can be a mark of hope for the exercise of citizenship and of living with dignity,” says the Executive Vice President of the FOSB Board of Trustees, Ana Flávia Cabral Souza Leite.
In addition to the students who took part in the initiative remotely, the in-person recording, which took place on the stage of the Sala Cecília Meireles, in Rio de Janeiro, featured five members of the Orquestrando a Vida project (Campos dos Goytacazes – RJ), supported by Criança Esperança in previous years.
