Other bandoneon players, singers and guitarists have come on board to perform throughout Montevideo.
In hospital, "they have a lot of time to be alone, often worried." "Often they don't know what their diagnosis is or what will happen in their lives," said Perez. The idea is to temporarily take people away from their "worry, illness, uncertainty, suffering." That is why he has spent two decades playing tango on his bandoneon to dialysis patients.īut last year, his personal initiative was transformed into the "Hospital Tango" project that puts on mini concerts in health centers and hospitals. Music's therapeutic benefits have been "amply demonstrated," says nephrologist Gerardo Perez, 68, adding that the World Health Organization (WHO) has "for years" recommended incorporating art and culture into health systems. It also affects the areas of the brain related to pleasure by boosting dopamine. Scientific research shows that listening to music reduces anxiety and stress, and stabilizes the heartbeat and pulse.
The show lasts 40 minutes and every patient has a front row seat. Rafael Gutierrez, 46, says music "makes time go faster" and makes the dialysis treatment "much more bearable." Other patients agree that these mini-concerts have improved their quality of life. "The music gave my soul life and gave me the will to live, joy, enthusiasm, those things that were fading." I did things but without my old enthusiasm," she said. Smiles break out across the faces of patients, including Diaz, who visits the clinic three times a week to spend four hours connected to a machine. Suddenly the sound of the machines and chattering nurses are drowned out by bandoneon music and a voice singing the classic tango piece "Naranjo en flor."
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