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