Word: lobosities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
To get the contours of Brazil on music paper, Villa-Lobos invented a "millimetric musical chart"-a graph on which he placed, in vertical columns on the left side, the diatonic, chromatic and other scales, with one note for each horizontal line. Villa-Lobos got photographs of Brazil's...
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...
Last week in Baltimore Brazilian Pianist Guiomar Novaěs and Conductor Hans Kindler's National Symphony gave one of Villa-Lobos' biggest works its first U. S. hearing. Called Momo Precoce (The Young Momus) after the ancient Greek god of ridicule, the composition depicted the sights & sounds...
Meanwhile Villa-Lobos was in Brazil, hard at work writing more music, organizing and conducting outdoor song festivals for school children, revamping the teaching methods of Brazil's Department of Musical Education, of which he is superintendent. Since 1931, when he was named to this post, Villa-Lobos has...