[TANGO-L] Robert Duvall commendation

[Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001 @YAHOO.COM.AR>]

Dear friends from Tango list
I receive comments complaining about the commendation of Robert Duvall from the Academia Nacional del Tango , saying also that he is not the one and only american cooperating to promote the Tango in USA:

I would like to make clear that my posting about Robert Duvall, was not my personal opinion about the qualifications of Mr Duvall to receive or not a commendation.

I just comment, what Mr.Nicholas Tozer , Press Secretary of the Academia Nacional del Tango , commented by phone ,i.e. Mr.Duvall was commended as member of the Academia, and separately as Cultural Ambassador of the Fundacion Academia Nacional del Tango .

Any selection is open to criticism , as one american businessman once said " each time I have to choose between 11 person to appoint a new vicepresident , I have 10 people unsatisfied, and one ingrateful person"


I do not know personally Mr. Duvall, I have seen him at local milongas in Buenos Aires , and he was a plain guy , one more embedded into the group of dancers of the night. If this is considered my personal commendation, let it be considered this way.

I include some information about the Academia Nacional del Tango, since this organization receives requests to have counterpart academies at other places of the world. Nicholas Tozer, the Press Secretary, is a fluent english speaker , journalist and member of the Wallenber Foundation, a guy whom you can contact directly.

Warm regards
Alberto Gesualdi
Buenos Aires


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