Villa Lobos, provavelmente, o mais bravo dos guerreiros, comprava brigas e, graças a Deus, venceu inúmeras batalhas, dividindo a autoria de sua grande obra com o seu próprio povo.
Villa Lobos, probably the bravest of warriors, took on others’ fights and, thank God, won many battles, sharing the authorship of his great work with his own people.
[thanks to Wellington Müller Bujokas for his help with the translation]
Carlos Henrique Machado writes about the composer as “prophet without honor in his own country”, in his excellent Blog da Ava: Musica Popular Brasileira.
It’s clear to me that the MPB culture has completely bought in to the idea that Villa-Lobos shared the authorship of his music with the people of Brazil. As Lee Boyd told me in a recent email, “The Brazilian crossovers from popular to serious art music who are writing now, to a man (and woman), cite Villa as an important influence.”
From A Floresta do Amazonas - Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica, conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky.
Great singing by the male voices of the Coro Sinfônico do Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of Julio Moretzsohn.
Here’s an exciting new disc just announced, from Naxos:
The disc includes a new version on CD of a superb late Villa-Lobos work for Concert Band: The Concerto Grosso for Wind Quartet and Wind Orchestra.
Performed by: President’s Own United States Marine Band, The
Composed by: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Conducted by: Jose Serebrier
Gail Gillespie, flute
Leslye Barrett, oboe
Lisa Kadala, clarinet
Christopher McFarlane, bassoon
You can hear a preview of the disc on the Naxos Direct site.
Or download the same work, performed by the DePaul University Wind Ensemble on a 2001 Albany CD, from emusic.com.
