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...Festival of Brazilian Music (Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). First big phonographic collection of works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil's No. i composer and one of the lustiest living. Beautifully recorded by Soprano Elsie Houston, the Schola Cantorum, conducted by Hugh Ross, a scratch orchestra under Burle Marx. Villa-Lobosities: a Bachiana Brasileira for eight cellos attempting to fuse the spirits of Bach and Brazil; a Nonetto for chorus and small orchestra, purporting to describe Brazil's geography...
Best-known South American composer is Heitor Villa-Lobos, talkative, self-taught Brazilian, a man of tremendous energy who has written more than 1,400 pieces, and has said, "Better bad of mine than good of others." Last week, in connection with a big show of paintings by Brazil's Candido Portinari (TIME, Aug. 12), Manhattan's enterprising Museum of Modern Art did up Brazil's music in a package of six concerts. The Museum's elegant audiences and radio listeners gathered that African thumps and easygoing Portuguese tunes were Brazil's chief heritage. Wherever...
No.1 composer of Brazil is hardworking, talkative, frantic Heitor Villa-Lobos. whose bumptious exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office 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...
Most composers spend the early part of their lives in conservatories of music, where they learn to write potted fugues and hothouse symphonies. But no conservatory ever held Brazil's bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him how to play a lick or two on the cello. He taught himself how to play the piano. By the time he was 19 he was roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often...
...sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless they brought their own food. Even on those terms, they came back. When Heitor Villa-Lobos returned to his native Brazil a few years later, he found that his European reputation had preceded him. He was Brazil's No. 1 composer...