"Passarim quis pousar, não deu, voou"...
Talvez, por causa disso tudo, acordei cantando Jobim e transpirando
saudade.
Tom Jobim |
Saudade, sim. Essa dor da ausência que tem-se prazer em sentir. Ausência
dos amores que se tornaram finitos, dos amigos que já partiram, dos momentos comemorados com euforia, dos sorrisos
guardados em fotografias. Ausência dos segredos partilhados na surdina, dos
poemas decorados e nunca declamados, das madrugadas insones, sonhando acordada,
das pequenas e bobas alegrias. Ausência de mim, num tempo que não é mais aqui;
ausência de ti, num lugar que não é agora; ausência de Tom Jobim, que tudo isso
celebrava em canções.
Canções inspiradas nas fontes murmurantes de Ari Barroso, nas florestas
desbravadas por Villa Lobos e em
clássicos que, sem preconceito, se misturam à bossa, ao samba, ao jazz. Canções
onde passarinhos sapecas saltitam, rios
desaguam em praias, ventos antecipam tempestades e as águas de janeiro,
fevereiro e março transbordam verões.
Tom e Edu Lobo, foto produzida para disco juntos |
“Esse piano tocado pelo Tom é uma orquestra!” – Comentou, ele, Edu, sem
esconder sua admiração pelo amigo e parceiro.
Eu, vencendo a timidez inicial e visivelmente emocionada, retruquei com
um “ muito obrigada, maestro”, dirigido a Tom, antes de pegar meu bloquinho, caneta, e gravador
para começar a entrevista (sim, senhores: repórteres usavam bloquinho e gravador!). Tom
sorriu, fez uma semi reverência, como se estivesse diante de uma grande
plateia, e voltando à banqueta do piano, deu um gole no uísque que ali estivera
todo o tempo, para responder a minha primeira pergunta que já nem lembro mais
qual foi. Só me recordo do alívio agradecido por, finalmente conseguir
articular um pensamento inteligente diante do meu ídolo e maestro preferido. O
maestro que já era soberano, muito antes de Chico Buarque tê-lo denominado
assim.
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“Little bird on a
tree you better fly.” (**)
Tom
Jobim was on my dreams last night. Maybe because he would have turned ninety if
he was alive and the date were broadly celebrated last Wednesday. Maybe because
I was waken up very early by a little bird singing at my window. Maybe because
staring at the man who was sleeping beside me (by the way, he is my husband), I
whispered the lyrics “I know that I will love you, for all my life, I will love
you”… (***)
Maybe because of all of that, I woke up this morning singing and
missing Jobim.
Yes, living the feeling that only Portuguese precisely
translates in a word: saudade. A
substantive that brings the force of a verb. A verb to be always conjugated on
the present tense. A word that expresses the emotional pain we feel when we
miss something or someone, such as: old ended loves, passed away friends,
celebrated moments, framed frozen smiles, silently shared secrets, memorized
but never recited poems, awaken dawns, fool and little joys. The absences of
who we were at some point in time. The absence of Tom Jobim, who celebrated all
those feelings with music.
Songs he created inspired by Ari Barroso (****) and Villa Lobos (*****).
Classical he mixed with bossa, samba and jazz – there were no boundaries for
him. Songs that bring live the sensation of watching a little bird sing, of
swimming on rivers that end on beaches and of bathing on summer storms. Songs
that in the early eighties I had the privilege to listen to played by Tom
Jobim, himself, at his place, while we waited for the composer Edu Lobo, with
whom he had recorded a vinyl. At the time, I worked as a reporter and was there
to interview both o them to write a story about the album.
Noticing I was so young and so intimidated by his presence, Tom
started playing to break the ice. And kept playing, while his youngest son, a
little boy at the time, played with his toys at the patio next door and the
sunset reflected at his big black piano. And played uninterruptedly till the
moment Edu Lobo showed up to rescue him from that private recital.
“Played by Tom, this piano is an orchestra”, said Edu, without
disguising the admiration he felt for his partner.
Overcoming my initial shyness and visibly moved, I tuned to Tom
and mumbled a “thank you very much, Maestro”,
before I picked up my tab, pen and tape recorder to begin the interview (Yeah,
folks: reporters used tabs and tape recorders!). Tom smiled, made a greeting
gesture as if he was on stage before a big audience, and sit down back at the
piano’s bench to start answering my questions.
Yes, at last, I could articulate something intelligent before my
idol and favorite maestro.
(*) Tom
Jobim – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician and composer; considered as
one of the fathers of Bossa Nova. The author of ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ in
partnership with Vinicius de Moraes.
(**) Lyrics
of ‘Passarim’, one of Tom Jobim’s songs.
(***) Lyrics
of ‘I know that I will love you’, one of Tom Jobim’s songs
(****) Ari
Barroso, Brazilian composer.
(*****)
Villa Lobos, Brazilian musician, conductor and musician.
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Que delícia, hein! Caraca! Tom Jobim tocando pra você. Deve ter sido um momento mais q sublime...
ResponderExcluirInesquecível mesmo.
ExcluirSim ju verdade. Eu sei que vou te amar...show Verinha. Parabéns!!!
ResponderExcluir:---))) Obrigada, Eliane
ExcluirO sonho te inspirou! Parabéns!
ResponderExcluirTua profissão é linda e deve ter te proporcionado muitas oportunidades maravilhosas como essa.
MCarmo O. Monteiro
Obrigada, Maria do Carmo, por acompanhar o blog e deixar o comentário gentil aqui.
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