Word: heitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 72, self-taught, prolific Brazilian composer who combined the counterpoint of Bach with the vigorous rhythms of native Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged...
...autobiography (she was born in 1899, not 1903); that the dates of Wagner's imprisonment for debt in Paris, a little matter omitted in Wagner's own accounts, were from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17, 1840. It was Slonimsky who several years ago told Brazilian Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos when he was born= 1887, not 1881 or 1890, as some previous references...
...frothy Poulenc trio for piano, bassoon and oboe (the latter exquisitely played by Robert Freeman '57). The piece de resistance was Limon's own "Emperor Jones," a 20-minute ballet based on the O'Neill play. The choreography is inspired and Pauline Lawrence's costumes superb. The prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos composed the magnificently frenetic score. This ballet concert marked a tremendous improvement over the one presented last year...
...Brazilian musician named Heitor Villa-Lobos sold some rare books left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music. Some of his work was jungly, some languid as a slow samba. Villa-Lobos became famed as one of the century's most brilliant composers. Last week, a half century after his first jungle excursion but still a restless wanderer, Composer Villa-Lobos turned up as guest...
...Boston Symphony, in collaboration with Conductor Charles Munch and one of the Koussevitzky foundations, is awarding $2,000 apiece to 15 famed composers, e.g., Darius Milhaud, Heitor Villa-Lobos, William Schuman, for symphonic works to be played in 1955, its 75th anniversary year...