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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“ On my return home, I put Rudepoema back on the piano stand and read it through again, this time undisturbed by the presence of the composer. It appeared to me to be a monumental attempt to express the origins of the native Brazilian caboclos, their sorrows and joys, their wars and peace, finishing with a savage dance. Arthur Rubinstein talks about Rudepoema, the great piano piece written in his honour by Villa-Lobos in the mid-1920s. From My Many Years, Rubinstein’s entertaining memoir published in 1980, p. 252.