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Sao Paulo, Jun 16 (EFE), (Camera: Wallace Carvalho).- "He is a representative of music on Earth." This is how the theater director Jorge Takla defines the teacher and pianist Joao Carlos Martins, who, at the age of 80, has dedicated more than 70 to art and has become one of the main references of classical music in the world.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF JOAO CARLOS MARTINS, MASTER AND PIANIST AND JORGE TAKLA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION (BOTH IN PORTUGUESE):TRANSLATION:MARTINS:- "THE TWO TIMES I HAD TO AWAY FROM MUSIC WAS DUE TO MY HEALTH".- "IT WAS LIKE I HAD A BURIED BODY IN MY CHEST AND THAT I GOT IT OFF WHEN I RETURNED TO THE MUSIC".- "I CANNOT DESCRIBE IN WORDS HIS ROLE IN MY LIFE, BUT I THINK I COULD DESCRIBE IT IN THE WAY HOW I PLAYED BACH".TAKLA:- "I BELIEVE HE IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF MUSIC ON EARTH".- "HE NEEDS MUSIC AS MUCH AS MUSIC NEEDS HIM TO STAY ALIVE".- "IT IS FANTASTIC THAT THE SAMPLE CAN EXIST AT THIS MOMENT. IT IS A BREATH OF HOPE, OF LIFE."
Brasilia, May 27 (EFE).- The physician and scientist who runs Brazil's prestigious Instituto Butantan suggested Thursday that the actions of President Jair Bolsonaro delayed the start of Covid-19 vaccination in the South American nation where the disease has claimed nearly 455,000 lives.(CAMERA: Alex Mirkhan)
The lights go out at Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro for Earth Hour, with this year's event highlighting the link between the destruction of nature and increasing outbreaks of diseases like Covid-19. IMAGES
People protest in a Carrefour in Rio de Janeiro, asking for the chain to close the supermarket down after the death of a black man beaten by white security guards at another supermarket run by the French group Carrefour. IMAGES
Dozens of members of Brazil's Kayapo indigenous community block a major trans-Amazonian road to protest against the lack of support given by Jair Bolsonaro's government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and demand that deforestation be brought to an end. IMAGES
Rio de Janeiro, Apr 21 (EFE) .-Residents of the Mandela favela, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, wait to receive a food donation from the NGO Rio de Paz, to help the who are out of work and in poverty in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CAMERA: Antonio Lacerda)
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