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Today we travel to Argentina and Brazil, with a hop into Mexico, enabling us to sample several indigenous languages, Guarani and Zapotecan, plus music in the imported languages of Spanish and Portuguese. Singer and guitarist Suni Paz sings “Pedro Canoero,” introducing us to the Guarani harp. More musical surprises come from recordings made by the Columbia recording company aboard the SS Uruguay as a flurry of Brazil's finest popular musicians participate in an all-night jam session, overseen by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Leopold Stokowski.