Symphony in White (THE AMERICAS)
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The two daughters of Afonso Olmpio and Otaclia raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in teeming Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s form the counterpoint and central theme linking four generations: the pliant troubled Clarice and the lovely strong-willed Maria Ins. As other voices join inthose of the men they have married and the ones they have loved; the artist manqu Toms; villagers and childhood friends; Great-Aunt Berenice in Rio; Eduarda Maria Inss eighteen-year-old daughterthe cool white calm of the sisters universe dissolves in a swirl of dark secrets. The familys silences echo the unspoken atrocities of the military dictatorship holding sway in their country. But after the death of their mother forces Clarice and Maria Ins to face their shared past an old score is settled. In a dramatic and powerful work of great beauty and harmony Lisboa reveals the abysses of the human soul within a framework as delicate as a butterflys flight.
