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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Antonio O. Garza, Jr., was a guest of honor at the concert offered for Mexico City public elementary and secondary school students by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and its Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis. “Art, in all its forms, is one of the human expressions that unites us all in a very special way,” said the Ambassador at the Main Square in Mexico City, where the concert took place. “Jazz is a universal language that the people of the United States gave to the world and Wynton Marsalis, U.S. Cultural Ambassador, has been very generous by sharing his great artistic sensibility with the young Mexican people gathered here today, ” Garza added.
Wynton Marsalis is the most accomplished and acclaimed jazz artist and composer of his generation. He is internationally respected as a teacher and spokesman for music education and an artist who is committed to young people, frequently offering concerts and seminars for students of all ages. More than one thousand Mexican young people attended this concert, as well as high officials from the Mexican Education Secretariat and the Mexico City Government.
Mr. Marsalis was awarded the United Nations designation of “Messenger of Peace” and in June 2002, and was named “Cultural Ambassador of the United States” by Department of State Secretary Colin Powell. He has received many awards in his career, including nine Grammies and a Pulitzer Prize. Wynton Marsalis visited Mexico to offer a series of concerts for the Mexico City Historical Center Festival, and his participation was co-sponsored by the Department of State’s CultureConnect Program and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
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