Beija-Flor

Among the best Carioca samba institutions, the Beija-Flor de Nilópolis was the overall champ of the annual competition in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980 (that season, as well as Imperatriz Leopoldinense and Portela), 1983, and 1998. The employing of Joãozinho Trinta and intensely huge amounts of cash gained from betting (jogo perform bicho, animals video game) imposed permanently a fresh, grandiose face not merely towards the Beija-Flor’s parade, but to the complete Carioca Carnival. During Xmas Eve of 1948, users from the bloco (band of Carnival merrymakers) Irineu Perna de Pau, which experienced paraded going back time that 12 months, decided to produce another bloco de Carnaval. Milton de Oliveira (Negão da Cuíca), Edson Vieira Rodrigues (Edinho perform Ferro Velho), Silvestre David da Silva (Cabana), Helles Ferreira da Silva, Mário Silva, Walter Silva, Hamilton Floriano, and José Fernandes da Silva required the duty upon themselves. Because they hadn’t an individual instrument, it had been Edinho’s duty to supply the group with some cod barrels that, by using natural leather from Nilópolis’ (their community, a working-class suburb in Rio) butchery, became the 1st drum section (bateria) from the samba college Beija-Flor de Nilópolis. The 1st official getting together with of the brand new bloco was in the Grêmio Teatral de Nilópolis (Theatre Culture of Nilópolis), whenever a provisional leader was appointed, Milton de Oliveira, and his secretary, Edson Vieira Rodrigues. The decision of the name was a far more trial, and after many hours there wasn’t consensus. It had been when Milton de Oliveira’s mom D. Eulália de Oliveira recommended Associação Carnavalesca Beija-Flor (Hummingbird Carnival Association). D. Eulália was after that admitted like a creator, having been the only real female in the nascent bloco. The colours adopted had been blue as well as the white, staying therefore until today. Around the brink of Carnaval, that they had their devices ready and their outfits tailored. It had been when the initial leader was elected, Helles Ferreira da Silva. He commanded the Beija-Flor until 1953. The effective debut on the parade of 1949 thrilled the members from the bloco, who produced plans for an improved organization because they had been having their rehearsals on view street, in the part of Mirandela and João Pessoa roads. In 1953, Cabana signed up the Beija-Flor in the Confederation of Samba Institutions for the state Carnaval parade of 1954. The bloco was today a samba college. In that season, the Beija-Flor earned the competition of the next division using the story “O Caçador de Esmeraldas,” ascending towards the initial department. In 1956, the institution won the Springtime Carnival instituted with the city’s travel and leisure section with Ari Carobinha’s samba. After having descended to the next department in 1963, it could only go back to the top notch from the Carioca Carnaval (occupying the seventh place) in 1974, showing plots (enredos) that glorified the armed service coup, for the reason that and another 12 months. In 1975, the effective brothers Abrahão David, owners from the figures game (jogo perform bicho) for the reason that area of the town, began to sponsor the samba college. They employed the Carnaval grasp inventor Joãozinho Trinta, who experienced launched the grandiosity of his creativity in the entire year before, earning the name for the Salgueiro samba college using the enredo “Rei de França na Ilha da Assombração” (“The Ruler of France in the Haunted Isle”). In 1975, Trinta gained the competition for Salgueiro once again, using the story “O Segredo das Minas perform Rei Salomão” (“THE TRICK of Ruler Salomon’s Mines”). Following the Carnival, Anísio Abrahão David made a decision to transform the humble Beija-Flor right into a big college, encouraged by the actual fact that, in the last season, another jogo perform bicho owner, Castor de Andrade, acquired involved himself straight in direction of a samba college, the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel. Anísio place his sibling Nelson Abrahão David in the presidency from the Beija-Flor, employed Trinta like a key composer, and spent maybe the biggest sum of money by a person inside a samba college, which yielded a significant newspaper report entitled “Escolas de Samba S.A” (“Samba Colleges Inc.”). And in addition, the Beija-Flor received in that 12 months, its 1st name as the absolute champion from the Carioca Carnival competition, with Joãozinho Trinta’s creation within the enredo “Sonhar com Rei Dá Leão” (“To Wish with a Ruler may be the Lion”) — also and in addition a story coping with the jogo perform bicho (Brazilian quantities games use pets, and folks who play the overall game utilized to bet predicated on the their dreams through the prior evening). Trinta’s creation, fueled with the unparalleled monetary assets he removed, produced his earlier excursions at Salgueiro appear timid. But, prior to the Carnival of 1977, the composer Cabana, among the founders of the institution, protested against the involvement of Joãozinho Trinta in the authorship from the samba selected in the inner competition to represent the institution in the Carnaval of this 12 months, arguing that Trinta wrote simply four verses from the 35 that constituted the samba-enredo “Vovó e o Rei da Saturnália na Corte Egipciana” (“Grandma as well as the Ruler of Saturnalia in the Egyptian Courtroom”). But, while nobody paid attention to Cabana’s issues, the arresting of Anísio three times prior to the Carnival triggered a commotion. Having spent two times in prison and provided his testimony, Anísio was freed with a habeas-corpus posted by his attorney. It mentioned that his arresting was “a subversive action commanded by communists,” as Carlinhos Maracanã, after that chief executive from the Portela samba college in addition to a jogo perform bicho owner, was also caught in the event. Following declarations by Anísio offered credence to his conspiracy theory, relating to which there is a motion to exclude through the Carnaval the four universities commanded by jogo perform bicho owners (Beija-Flor, Portela, Mocidade Independente, and Imperatriz Leopoldinense). Acquiring those four universities from the Carioca Carnival competition, the communists will be likely to promote a rebellion with the people of the complete country against the country’s central federal government. Even so, the Beija-Flor gained the competition of that calendar year again, duplicating the deed in 1978 (with “Criação perform Mundo na Tradição Nagô,” or “The Creation from the Globe in the Nagô Custom”). The institution remained at the top, getting classified in virtually any from the three initial positions through the next a decade. Joãozinho Trinta would earn the competition for the institution also in 1980 with “O Sol da Meia-Noite e uma Viagem ao País das Maravilhas” (“The Midnight Sunlight and a vacation towards the Wonderland”) and in 1983, having remaining the Beija-Flor in 1992. The samba college was champion once again in 1998 with “Pará, o Mundo Místico dos Caruanas nas Águas perform Patu-Anu” (“Pará, the Mystical Globe from the Caruanas in the Waters from the Patu-Anu”). The institution parades every year with typically 3,800 people.