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.




“ As Varese once remarked to his wife, ‘Well, when you meet him you look around for a coconut tree’ - a comment that Louise elucidated as follows: ‘Villa with his primitive naturalness and shrewdness, his magnetism and radiating vitality, was able to bring a vision of palm trees and monkeys into the coolest of French intellectual atmospheres.’ From Edgard Varese: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary, ed. Felix Meyer & Heidy Zimmermann, 2006. Not a very nice thing for Edgard Varese to say about his Brazilian friend. Mme. Varese certainly gave his comment the best possible interpretation. I wonder if she often ‘translated’ like that.

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