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.




“ Poulenc, with his Rapsodie nègre [1917, rev. 1933]; Milhaud, with his L’homme et son désir [1918] and La création du monde [1923], Villa-Lobos, with his twelve [fourteen] Chôros [1920-29] and his Noneto [1923], have returned from their trips to Africa, to the Amazon rainforests, to Harlem cabarets, full of ideas. Many of them found in jazz a definite survival of the great principles that rule primitive music. Alejo Carpentier, quoted in Katia Chornik’s 2010 Doctoral Thesis “The Role of Music in Selected Novels and Associated Writings of Alejo Carpentier: Primeval Expression, Structural Analogies and Performance”, The Open University.