B2Wins: Music Reimagined at The Lyric Theatre
It’s a long way from the mean streets of the Brazilian favelas to the tree-lined campus of an Iowa university, yet that’s the extraordinary journey musical twins Walter and Wagner Caldas made. The thirty-something-year-olds got their first instruments, violins, from their father, who had a small woodshop and made instruments for a local orchestra designed to keep kids off the streets. The boys took lessons, joined the orchestra at 12, and began traveling outside the favela. They also memorized pop songs by Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson. The orchestra played for celebrities and dignitaries and the twins, with their high-energy takes on classical music, stood out. After a performance in Rio de Janeiro in 2006, an NPR producer did a story on them, and they began to imagine life outside the favela. “Art, in general, it takes you somewhere, somehow,” Walter said. “It gives everyone a vision of the world they didn’t have, including me.”
Ticket Link: https://www.lyrictheatre.com/show/11525-b2wins-music-reimagined
