Pierre Kast off comment:
And while flying on a small plane, doors opened, my camera man's legs hanging out, over the future big Urubupunga hydroelectric power central on Rio Parana, I can already hear a strange melody... This melody is a 'praise for peace': lyrics by Ruy Guerra, music by Baden Powell.

I had met with Baden Powell a few weeks before in Auro Preto, where he accepted to be filmed. I arrived in Sao Paulo dazed, astounded by what I had seen. Baden was there.
He is working. He has one TV show per week. He is rehearsing, composing, playing, and sometimes he is having fun. We were happy to meet again on that day ... strange Robinson on a strange desert island...

He proposed to me to record again some of his music.
You've just listened to his 'praise for peace', and you can now hear him composing and rehearsing on a cantate with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes.

But, especially for us, he is going to play again:
a samba? a popular music? a love song? yes all that ... but however, on a melody you know well, a melody that young Bonaparte could hear, and that old crown less Napoleon enjoyed listening to, De Lisle used to say 'this melody's got some moustache'...

We thank Ben for his translation and his support.