Maestro says goodbye to the international stages this Friday, 9, at Carnegie Hall, a stage where he premiered in 1962 at the age of 21
The iconic conductor João Carlos Martins prepares for a farewell to international stages. The last presentation will take place in New York this Friday, 9. With all tickets sold out, the concert symbolizes the importance of the conductor for Brazilian and world music.
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Divided into two parts, the show begins with a moment dedicated to connecting Brazil with Europe from works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Heitor Villa-Lobos. After, Martins brings compositions of Tom Jobim, Piazzolla, John Williams and Morricone.
The presentation in the imposing Carnegie Hall It also has a special meaning that goes beyond farewell. He debuted on that stage in the 1960s at the invitation of the then first lady of the US, Eleanor Rooseveltand returned to the show room in Manhattan in 1978, after a clearance due to hand problems.
Challenges
Almost 50 years later, the conductor returns to Carnegie Hall surrounded by challenges. In late April, he revealed that he discovered prostate cancer. The diagnosis came in March this year during routine exams.
According to the 84-year-old musician, it is an aggressive cancer that needed immediate surgery, performed two days after biopsy. THE S.Paulo Folhahe talked about the drama “devastating”:
At 84, after performing 30 surgeries, especially in the hands, the last thing I expected was to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. And that happened last March. ”
In addition, he faces focal dystonia, a neurological disorder that affects the movement of the hands. So you will take advantage of the New York presentation break to dive your hands in hot water and get around the pain.
Cured of cancer and challenging medical recommendations, João Carlos Martins It is far from interrupting the plans. Although the presentation in New York is treated as his last outside Brazil, the conductor reveals that his walk in the country still has a lot ahead.
“I will fully dedicate myself to a revolution in music education for five, six years old. I’ve started a project at Lyceum Pasteur (in Sao Paulo) and made an exhibition at the Federal Senate. I’m talking to the Education Council. It’s a project not to stick to a child for a child, but through a joke and child looking for music.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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