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.




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He was in the Brazilian jungle with a friend and guide.

“There is a large circular flower,” he told us, “called the sensitive plant. My friend approached it and it closed around him. I drew my knife! I slashed at it without effect! I thought of my saxophone.”

Villa-Lobos said he grabbed his saxophone and played a drawn-out melody.

“The plant opened, expanded, freeing my friend!”

 A great story from Ralph Gustafson’s hugely entertaining memoir “Villa-Lobos and the Man-Eating Flower,” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring, 1991),p. 5.

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