Word: brazilianizing
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...Rola Rola, a handsome Brazilian couple who perform on a thin board on a roller...
...window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing to go to the people or to other composers...
Villa-Lobos realized that music could thus be charted from business indices, people's profiles (turned on their side), or even a random scrawl. As director of Brazil's public musical education, he tried out his idea on school children. Last week many a Brazilian moppet, playing at composing, drew jagged lines on paper, superimposed them on a millimetric chart (with the chromatic scale only), rushed to a piano to hear the result...
...immigrant, Artist Segall etched with telling strokes the crowded steerage of his transatlantic liner, the lonely sea beyond. Brighter, more cheerful are his water colors of laborers taking siestas, cows looking over a fence. With his attractive Brazilian wife and two sons, Artist Segall lives in big, bustling Sao Paulo. But he often goes back country to paint. Most appealing canvas in the show came from one such trip: Negro Mother, an almond-eyed, woolly-haired girl holding up her café-au-lait infant...
...down and see what I can do with the farm." The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, tall and handsome brother of Texas George, founded the first Protestant mission in Brazil, for 31 years was a missionary bishop in that country. His stay there resulted in Brazilian nicknames for his son and his nephew. "Big Tui," the son, was Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II, today the stalwart, handsome dean of the Episcopal Cathedral in Garden City...