Beatriz Azevedo & Moreno Veloso
NOW CLARICE
at Princeton University
N O W C L A R I C E
Princeton University presents the concert Agora/Now Clarice celebrating Lispector’s multilingualism and artistic luminosity.
The concert feature poet-musicians Beatriz Azevedo and Moreno Veloso, who perform original songs and excerpts from Clarice Lispector’s work.
Azevedo and Veloso will be accompanied by Jaques Morelenbaum (cello) and Marcelo Costa (percussion).
The iconic Maria Bethânia will read excerpts from Lispector’s oeuvre.
A G O R A C L A R I C E
Espetáculo realizado a convite da Princeton University
com Beatriz Azevedo e Moreno Veloso
Músicos Jaques Morelenbaum e Marcelo Costa
Participação especial Maria Bethânia
em homenagem aos 100 anos de Clarice Lispector
PRESS REVIEWS
PERFORMERS BIOS
Beatriz Azevedo is a Brazilian poet, singer and composer. She holds a doctorate in Performing Arts and Master in Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at UNICAMP (State University of Campinas). Azevedo is the author of Antropofagia Palimpsesto Selvagem, a new take on Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago and Brazilian Modernism. Her writings and poetry have appeared in various publications, including the book Acabou Chorare, alongside Caetano Veloso and Arnaldo Antunes. Azevedo released the albums AntroPOPhagia in 2016 and A.G.O.R.A in 2019.
Moreno Veloso is a Brazilian composer and musician. He has been involved in music since a very young age, and even toured with his father Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as a teenager. Although he studied Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), he continued playing and writing music, and achieved success with his first album release, Máquina de Escrever Música (2000). Since then he has continued playing and recording all over the world. He released the album Coisa Boa in 2014 and Ofertório (with his father and his brothers Zeca and Tom) in 2018.
SOME WORDS ON CLARICE LISPECTOR 
Born in Ukraine on December 10, 1920, to parents fleeing anti-Semitic persecution, Clarice Lispector arrived in the northeast of Brazil in 1922, when she was fifteen months old. Her mother died when she was nine, an event that marked her deeply. The migrant family then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where Lispector studied Law. After her marriage to the diplomat Mauricio Gurgel Valente, she lived in Italy (1944-46), Switzerland (1946-49), England (1951), and the United States (1952-59).
In 1959, Lispector returned definitively to Brazil and spent the rest of her life in Rio de Janeiro with her two sons.
Clarice Lispector is acclaimed by litterateurs as “the premier Latin American woman prose writer” and “one of the hidden geniuses of the 20th century,” and by feminist thinkers as a great source of inspiration. She is now the most translated woman writer of all times in the Portuguese language and critics agree that the recent “revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century.”
Clarice Lispector’s resonance and relevance to today’s global literary landscape is embodied by her protagonists, mostly women of different ages speaking with disarming candor through turbulent everyday lifeworlds, peopled with animals, men, children, plants and other women. Her rich portraits possess a startlingly vivid existential, philosophical, and theological depth, raising questions about the human condition, the condition of the woman (as writer, artist, householder, mother, partner, and citizen) and indeed the very notion of literature.
CLARICE LISPECTOR, 100 YEARS A Tribute to Her Life and Work
In the year of Clarice Lispector’s centenary (1920-1977), Princeton University will pay a tribute to her life and phenomenal body of work. The tribute is organized by professors Jhumpa Lahiri, Marília Librandi, and João Biehl.
Clarice Lispector, 100 years will take place on November 13, 2020 (2:00-4:00 pm ET; 16:00-18:00 Brasilia), and will feature Paulo Gurgel Valente (Lispector’s son and literary executor) and Lispector’s translators Idra Novey, Johnny Lorenz, and Katrina Dodson in conversation with Princeton professors Marília Librandi and João Biehl.
Pulitzer Prize-winner and Director of Princeton’s Creative Writing Program Jhumpa Lahiri will deliver the event’s keynote address.
Live-streamed to the Brazil LAB YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPpxSys7Ok
VIDEO
ALBUM MUSICAL to be released in July 2022 by Selo Sesc / SESC SP.