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Life, the Villaverse, & everything. Dean Frey's Villa-Lobos obsession, plus reviews at | profile pic Iberê Camargo, 1959

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

Villa-Lobos, Bach fan-boy.

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

"Coffee & the music of Villa-Lobos have been the principal exports of Brazil for the past 35 years. They occur in about equal proportions."
- Hubert Roussell, Houston Post review of a 1956 concert

📷 Museu Villa-Lobos photo of Villa having a coffee, surrounded by his scores.

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

My review of a special jazz concert at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen 37 years ago today, July 3, 1988, released by Storyville Records.

On piano, the wonderful Michel Petrucciani; on bass, Gary Peacock; on drums, Roy Haynes.

https://t.co/lSTSeOf0OQ

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

A new post for the Villa-Lobos Magazine: the fourth Villa on Vinyl post. A 1952 recording of the Mass of Saint Sebastian from California, on Columbia Masterworks.

https://t.co/5ajzdnZ7Bl

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

New on The Villa-Lobos Magazine: the third in the “Villa on Vinyl” series. 32 (!) cellos perform Villa's wonderful Fantasia for an Orchestra of Cellos, recorded in 1958.

https://t.co/oUKhScQ15Q

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

New on The Villa-Lobos Magazine: the second in the “Villa on Vinyl” series.

https://t.co/TC1WHyqFrL

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

A new post, after a long time, at The Villa-Lobos Magazine: Villa on Vinyl. I'll be talking about my favourite VL LPs, beginning with a great 1964 Julian Bream album: Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar. The first time I ever heard Villa-Lobos's music!

https://t.co/0OW9pN81qx

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

A new post, after a long time, at The Villa-Lobos Magazine: Villa on Vinyl. I'll be talking about my favourite VL LPs, beginning with a great 1964 Julian Bream album: Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar. The first time I ever heard Villa-Lobos's music!

https://t.co/0OW9pN81qx

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

My review of a fine new recording of Charles Koechlin’s First Symphony, & some other interesting works.

https://t.co/X7AE3QV2Ky

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

A new review of symphonies by César Guerra-Peixe, in the indispensable Naxos series “Music of Brazil”.

https://t.co/DRQDtMGOos

[Tom Godell @Tom_Godell]

April 4, 1947: Samuel Barber completes the composition Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The work was commissioned and premiered by Serge Koussevitzky. #DailyKoussevitzky #Koussevitzky150

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

"I just left Villa-Lobos. But he speaks only my music, my music, and I just like to talk about my painting, my painting."
- Candido Portinari

✏️ Dois Homens Conversando, 1960

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Heitor Villa-Lobos by W. Eugene Smith, New York, 1945

No one captured Villa's geniality, openness & enthusiasm better than Gene Smith.

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Another shot of Heitor Villa-Lobos by Arnold Newman. Again with his famous cigar!

March 5 is celebrated as Dia da Música Clássica in Brazil, in honor of their greatest, & most famous, composer.

Bachianas Brasileiras no. 7:
https://t.co/vJh7zWpamS

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Remembering Heitor Villa-Lobos on his birthday 🎂
📷 Arnold Newman, 1951

"He was pure frenzy organizing itself into rhythm, becoming melody & creating the most generous, the most intense & purifying communion ever imaginable."
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

and Lenny by Ruth Orkin, part 2

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Lenny by Ruth Orkin, part 1…

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Ruth Orkin
Felicia & Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, 1948

[Deny Fear @dean_frey]

Ruth Orkin
Leonard Bernstein conducting at Lewisohn Stadium, 1947

[Greg Ferguson 🌻🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @GreggersBFerg]

@villa_lobos @dean_frey V-L is magical as composer for guitar - not just for the instrument, but how to set it off at its most brilliant, most lyrical

[Our Villa @villa_lobos]

A new post at my Villa-Lobos Magazine blog:
Etudes for Guitar by Turibio Santos on LP
https://t.co/AMEqPoSBXq