Tumbling Villa-Lobos

A rapid impression of all Villa-Lobos.

From the guy who brought you The Villa-Lobos Website and The Villa-Lobos Magazine.

Focus, Dean, focus!

Tumbling since April 2007.




“ He can compose in the midst of pandemonium. He proved it to me by composing right then and there an enigma canon, with large squares in place of notes, signifying, so he explained, the immoderate ambitions of the aggressor nations. Villa-Lobos is intensely conscious of the universality of politics, with a strong anti-fascist slant. ‘A perfect example of rubato is Mussolini,’ he said, and this expressed his contempt for all bombast whether musical or political. Nicolas Slonimsky, “Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Visit”, Musical America, Oct. 10, 1941