Thanks to this post from the Association Bresilienne de...

“Villa Lobos, provavelmente, o mais bravo dos guerreiros,...”
— Carlos Henrique Machado writes...

“Schoenberg, who pretended to a certain omniscience, once...”
— Oscar Levant, from his hugely...

“The work is one of the composer’s major masterpieces,...”
— David Hurwitz, in his...

“It was my favorite piece of music when I was 15. I heard it...”
— Jason Vieaux talks about the...

This looks really interesting - there aren’t enough...

A 75th Birthday Tribute to Julian Bream, the Guitar...

The fifth Bachianas Brasileiras starts off Day 4 (March 6,...

Villa-Lobos for Wind Band

Here’s an exciting new disc just announced, from Naxos: The disc includes a new version on CD...

Villa-Lobos’s signature, one of many by famous...

“Villa-Lobos gets his hands dirty and is fastidious at the...”
— Bernard Holland, in a fine NY...

“Mr. Villa-Lobos was a good conductor, especially of his own...”
— Wesley Wehr, The Eighth Lively...

From the Music on Stamps blog.  I haven’t seen the...

“In his conducting he bounced along with the beat animatedly...”
— Paul Bowles on Music, p. 220

Bassoonist Benjamin Coelho’s disc Bravura Bassoon...

“When in 1936 he was invited to take part in the Congress for...”
— Nicholas Slonimsky, “A...

“It still reveals things to me — fortunately, there is...”
— Robert Bonfiglio, on the...

The Uirapuru, an Amazonian bird that’s the subject of...

“It’s a tremendously exciting piece with quite a bit of...”
— Marc-André Hamelin, on...

7 Rue Jean Goujon is just off the Champs Elysee, not too far...

“Villa-Lobos once aroused my envy by showing me his personal...”
— Aaron Copland: Music &...

Villa looks very jaunty in this computer wallpaper picture,...

I missed this excellent review of the Seventh Symphony in...

“Yes, the concerto was played gorgeously by Julius last...”
— Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary...

I love this poster.  It’s from a concert last October...

“When I played one of his works for Heitor Villa-Lobos...”
— Ruth Slenczynska, Music at...

Eva Gauthier

“A further highlight in Gauthier’s career took place a few months later, when she performed songs by...

“Villa-Lobos lived in Paris for a while, and in 1929 he even...”
— Selected Letters of Sergei...

The garden in the Museu Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro.  The...

“… also play Bartok, Walton quartet, Villa Lobos...”
— from Kerouac: Selected...

The Network Winds are a chamber music ensemble from...

“The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, increasingly...”
— Paris Journal, 1944-1955,...

Villa-Lobos à Paris : Un écho musical du Brésil...

“I think all the exoticism should be put away so that we can...”
— Aron Bitran, of the Cuarteto...

If you live in Colorado, you might want to head up to the...

The book-launch poster for Gil Jardim’s O Estilo...

A new CD coming from The Jacques Thibaud...

The Jacques Thibaud String Trio - Music at the End of the War 1944-46:String Trios by Klein,...

National Classical Music Day

In 2005, by initiative of VivaMúsica!, classical music lovers and professionals alike were surveyed...

“A Villa-Lobos concert is always something tasty, explosive...”
— René Dumesnil, music...

This first-day cover celebrates the centennial of the birth...

New Villa-Lobos DVD

Top 15 Brazilians of All Time

Here’s the list. O.K., I’ll give you Pelé (#1).  And Getúlio Vargas (#3) was...

“Last evening I was listening to the Bachianas Brasileiras,...”
— The Complete Poems of Anna...

Piano concert in Chicago

Closer to (my) home, here’s a concert note from the Sun-Times site about Chicago’s...

Upcoming Villa-Lobos Concerts: December...

Here are some concerts from around the world, coming up next month. Thanks to opus1classical.com...

“At the end of yesterday’s concert, ‘chez...”
— Vasco Mariz quotes a 1930...

This would have been fun to attend: a showing of a restored...

“Villa-Lobos was hitting on all cylinders when he wrote this...”
— The Northbrook Symphony...

Villa-Lobos at the piano.  Wait, what’s that? ...

“On a rainy afternoon we played Chinese checkers together, at...”
— Ralph Gustafson in...

Villa-Lobos - Trio for oboe, clarinet &...

Listen to this piece from 1921, a period when Villa wrote more than a few modernist masterpieces. ...

45th Festival Villa-Lobos

“He was pure frenzy organizing itself into rhythm, becoming...”
— Villa-Lobos - English Version

Shopping Villa-Lobos - Av. das Nações Unidas, 4.777 – Alto...

A "practical guide" to the musical world of...

Piano concert in Toronto, Nov. 27, 2007

Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, op.19; Nepomuceno: Suite Antiga, op.11, Air; L. Levy: Valsa Lenta #4;...

A new book on Humberto Mauro

Festival Villa-Lobos

“Right from the first chord, the presence of the composer...”
— From Lee Boyd’s...

Saint Paul Sunday: Celin and Pepe Romero,...

Cinco Conciertos Para Piano Y Orquesta

A new recording from Cuba, of the five piano concertos. This also includes a bonus DVD. The discs...

From the KUSF Classics Without Walls website, here’s...

The Villa-Lobos Store

Playbill News: Artur Rubinstein Collection...

From Left to right: Felicja Blumental, Annette Celine,...

He boos viola trill.

Villa-Lobos Takes a Trip

Relaunch of the Villa-Lobos Website

We’re finally starting to move over the original content from the Heitor Villa-Lobos Website -...

http://www.karmo.com.br/archives/2006/10/sesc_job.html Wow! ...

Astrologie : thème astral de 32400...

Saxton Rose : Principal Bassoonist of the...

Villa Lobos Vodka (With Worm)

Download the Poster. Villa-Lobos loved flying kites.  Here...

Buffalo Philharmonic Telegram

More cool Buffalo stuff here.  Can you still send telegrams today?

Saxophone letters

Villa-Lobos - Google Book Search

Experiencing Villa-Lobos

The Villa-Lobos Magazine

“Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I...”
— Igor Stravinsky (But Igor...

The poster from the excellent VL film by Zelito Viana.

“My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth...”
— Leonard Slatkin (the quote is...

The Villa-Lobos Website