What an extraordinary New Year's Eve concert! The title is some how misleading, the concert is a serious one with classical as well as crossover Brazilian music, the accepted norm in Brazil, that includes the samba melodic and rhythm characteristics. Composers from Argentina and Brazil are represented. The music is modern, vibrant, with incredible sounds and rhythms, and most important: beautiful and well performed. Listening and watching this DVD you are rapidly embedded in the joy the orchestra, the chorus, the conductor and the audience express in their music. A real treat for those of us who don't live in Brazil. I can only hope that next year's concert will be even more exciting and a DVD will be produced for all to enjoy. Highly recommended.