Ossos do ofício

Caros camaradas, ser-se BIF não é fácil.
E ser-se embaixador bifiano ainda é mais complicado.
Certo que tem os seus bons momentos, como encontrar-se com a mais alta representação britânica (tou a pensar em Kate Beckinsale, contactos a serem estabelecidos para o benefício do nosso orgão representativo...EU). Mas depois o gabinete também tem os seus deveres na luta inteminável pela promoção internacional do nosso movimento. Isto tudo porque, no dia 5 do mês que cruzamos, em modo piloto automático devido à ressaca das férias e especialmente do revelhão (espumante barato em vez de champagne a sério é sempre uma má opção), foi só pela obrigação diplomática que tive que sair de casa e representar a bifalhada no concerto deste senhor:

Wayne Shorter de seu nome...Aqui em Liverpool.
Do concerto ficou isto...(o shôre presidente escusa ler que é um bocadinho compridinho... :-P)

Well, the concert finished with a standing ovation which suggested that the public loved it and there was no doubt that, on its own terms, it was a success.

While Shorter took short solos playing soprano sax throughout, the emphasis was on the quartet and the orchestra, and he was lucky with his fellow musicians.

Drummer Brian Blade, wearing a broad grin, thrashed away at his drum kit as if having a ball, and John Patitucci climbed all over his double bass, while pianist Danilo Perez added a pulsating beat, often leaning across his grand piano to pluck the strings.

The Phil players tackled a fiendishly difficult series of scores with energy and accuracy, the woodwind and brass being given a particularly hard workout.

Shorter, looking nothing like his 74 years, but moving rather sedately, spoke but once to say that musically he was taking “the road less travelled” and had evolved. He was also delighted with his Liverpool audience. “I didn’t know you existed, you have been hiding it from CNN,” he declared.