It was at this point that Laurinda Santos Lobo, a rich heiress who hosted the city’s most celebrated artistic salons, decided to support concert performances of the composer’s works. In April 1921, at one of these concerts in which the fourth act of Izaht was played, he also presented some pieces with a ‘national’ theme for the first time: A Lenda do Caboclo, Viola and Sertão no Estio, works which included an elaboration of the rhythms of popular music. He made his purpose in composing ‘national’ pieces fully explicit in newspaper interviews. His idea was to “open the art festival with a concert of distinctively Brazilian.
