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May
9th
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Thanks to this post from the Association Bresilienne de Concerts blog.
Thanks to this post from the Association Bresilienne de Concerts blog.
Apr
29th
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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.”

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Schoenberg, who pretended to a certain omniscience, once said to me in his trembling husky voice, ‘I can see through walls.’
— Oscar Levant, from his hugely entertaining (but very sad) memoir The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, (Hollywood: Samuel French, 1965), p. 130. This has nothing to do with Villa-Lobos, except that he could see through walls as well.
Apr
26th
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Eduardo Lopes and the  Orchestre national de Lyon perform the first movement Preludio of the Bachianas Brasileiras #4.
Apr
8th
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The work is one of the composer’s major masterpieces, and with brilliant sonics, you’d have to be crazy not to buy this disc if you have even a shred of interest in Villa-Lobos.
— David Hurwitz, in his Classicstoday.com review of the BIS disc Complete Choros v. 1.
Mar
27th
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It was my favorite piece of music when I was 15. I heard it with Julian Bream’s ears. Now, upon studying the piece, I hear it differently.
— Jason Vieaux talks about the Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto, in an interview in the St. Petersburg Times.  The guitarist will play the Concerto in South Florida three times over the coming weekend with the Florida Symphony.
Mar
14th
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This looks really interesting - there aren’t enough discs with this VL repertoire.  We’ll have to see if this disc is easily available outside of Brazil.
This looks really interesting - there aren’t enough discs with this VL repertoire.  We’ll have to see if this disc is easily available outside of Brazil.
Mar
2nd
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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.

Feb
25th
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A 75th Birthday Tribute to Julian Bream, the Guitar Institute Celebration at the 92nd Street Y in NYC is featured on the front page of the current Classical Domain site.  The highlight for Villa-Lobos lovers will be David Leisner’s performance of the Preludes.  I’d love to be there on March 1st.  I first heard Villa-Lobos many years ago on an old Bream LP, and Leisner’s is one of my favourite modern recordings.
A 75th Birthday Tribute to Julian Bream, the Guitar Institute Celebration at the 92nd Street Y in NYC is featured on the front page of the current Classical Domain site.  The highlight for Villa-Lobos lovers will be David Leisner’s performance of the Preludes.  I’d love to be there on March 1st.  I first heard Villa-Lobos many years ago on an old Bream LP, and Leisner’s is one of my favourite modern recordings.
Feb
24th
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The fifth Bachianas Brasileiras starts off Day 4 (March 6, 2008) of Musimars at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University.  Featured are Iris Luypaers, soprano + UCCELLO 8 celli.
The fifth Bachianas Brasileiras starts off Day 4 (March 6, 2008) of Musimars at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University.  Featured are Iris Luypaers, soprano + UCCELLO 8 celli.
Feb
15th
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Villa-Lobos for Wind Band

Here’s an exciting new disc just announced, from Naxos:

The President's Own Marine Band

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. 

Feb
13th
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Villa-Lobos’s signature, one of many by famous musicians who signed The Bakaleinikoff Tablecloth, now in the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh.
Villa-Lobos’s signature, one of many by famous musicians who signed The Bakaleinikoff Tablecloth, now in the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh.
Feb
11th
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Villa-Lobos gets his hands dirty and is fastidious at the same time.
— Bernard Holland, in a fine NY Times review of “The Villa-Lobos Experience”, a Feb. 9, 2008 concert in NYC.
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In a clip from Korean Television, Lee Song-Ou plays the third Prelude.
Feb
9th
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Mr. Villa-Lobos was a good conductor, especially of his own music. He could conduct with a glance.
— Wesley Wehr, The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West