{"id":3483,"date":"2012-03-29T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2012-03-29T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T05:40:27","slug":"jobim-and-regina-the-waters-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/03\/jobim-and-regina-the-waters-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobim And Regina: The Waters Of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jobim-Regina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jobim-Regina.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jobim &amp; Regina\" width=\"130\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3484\" \/><\/a><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Larry Peterson suggested that while two days of March remain, it would be a good idea to revisit an Antonio Carlos Jobim classic. It is, of course, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u0081guas de Marco.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d March is the rainiest time of year in Rio de Janeiro. Jobim fashioned the progress of the music and the Portuguese lyric to suggest the storm waters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 relentless flow toward the sea. The words, in Portuguese and in his English version, constitute a paen to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the promise of life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A 2001 poll of Brazilian musicians and journalists concluded that it was the best of all Brazilian songs.   <\/p>\n<p>Jobim performed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Waters of March\u00e2\u20ac\u009d often with his friend the nonpareil singer Elis Regina. This 1974 version from a television show has attracted 2,155,406 <em>YouTube<\/em> viewers. No wonder.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srfP2JlH6ls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>To see Jobim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lyrics in Portuguese and English&#151;side by side&#038;#151<a href=\"http:\/\/www.des.emory.edu\/mfp\/waters.html\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Larry Peterson suggested that while two days of March remain, it would be a good idea to revisit an Antonio Carlos Jobim classic. It is, of course, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u0081guas de Marco.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d March is the rainiest time of year in Rio de Janeiro. Jobim fashioned the progress of the music and the Portuguese lyric to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}