Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer, Villa-Lobos went to work at eleven after his father died, eked out a living playing in theater and cabaret orchestras. He wandered all over Brazil, listening to the boomlay music of the Indians, the songs of the Negroes, and the backroom jazz of cellar cafes. Then he began composing, combining all he had heard. In 1922 he descended on Paris. "I did not come to study," he announced, "but to show what I have done...
...Four Falls, N.B., when his car ran off the road, crashed through three posts and plunged down an embankment, Fred Murray escaped injury; when he went to telephone for help, he fell into a newly dug cellar and broke...
...fill it up. I guess I wanted company, some commotion." Her daughter-in-law says Grandma's interest in painting is what keeps her young. Grandma disagrees. "I don't know as it done any more good than if I went down and cleaned the cellar...
...live on his uncle's farm (his father died when he was six, his mother when he was nine), the long round of farm chores, the unending making of provisions for the next winter. "In those primitive days," he said, "social security was had from the cellar, not from the federal government." He recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field in sight of this stand. My impression then, and now, is that...
...written 38 operas. But he never wrote another one. His nerves shaken from overwork, he wrote a friend that "music needs freshness . . . I am conscious of nothing but lassitude and crabbedness." He composed little, settled down in Paris to grow fat from his well-stocked wine cellar and his imported bolognas. When friends chided him for being lazy, Rossini replied: "I always had a passion for idleness...