Content area
Full text
The father of Bossa Nova, guitarist Laurindo Almeida, will donate more than 1,000 items from his personal collection of original scores and vellum copies of his compositions to Cal State Northridge.
Also noted for the film scores he composed for "The Godfather" and "The Unforgiven," Almeida is widely recognized for introducing Brazilian music to this country by developing in the '50s what he calls "an amalgam of samba and jazz" that later evolved into the Bossa Nova.
"He made the United States very much aware of Brazilian music and then created a particular style that took hold and is...