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...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...
Haifa (May 30-June 10): 28th festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Four orchestra and two chamber-music concerts of compositions by contemporary composers from around the world, beginning with the world premiere of Odyssey of a Race, written for Israel by Brazil's Heitor Villa-Lobos...
...supplied important stories for most sections of the magazine and is responsible, of course, for our regular Hemisphere section. Latin American stories have ranged all the way from the Business section's reports on spreading air routes to the Music section's reviews of compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos...
Magdalena (music by Heitor Villa-Lobos; book by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan & Homer Curran; produced by Mr. Curran) is Broadway's first encounter with Brazil's most famous composer...
...Heitor Villa-Lobos has spent a lifetime trying to write music that would seem entirely new-from his tricky Rudepoema (inspired by the profile of Pianist Artur Rubinstein) to his brilliant Bachianas Brasileiras, a volatile mixture of his own two idols, Bach and Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about...