Nov
28th
Wed
28th
At the end of yesterday’s concert, ‘chez Lamoureux,’ certain virtuosos of the whistle, endowed with uncommon pulmonary vigor, showed their disgust for the Choros of M. Villa-Lobos. What a tumult… For a quarter hour, members of the audience bellowed invective at one another…
— Vasco Mariz quotes a 1930 Parisian review, in his book Heitor Villa-Lobos: Life and Work of the Brazilian Composer, Brazilian American Cultural Institute, 1970, p. 20.