Word: lobosities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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
(TIME, Sept. 27). Unfortunately for Senhor Villa-Lobos, Magdalena seems like its librettists' first encounter with Broadway. They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the tropics and...
All this is too much for Composer Villa-Lobos, or probably anyone else, to triumph over. It is yet a tribute to him that Magdalena is often something to be enjoyed rather than endured. Some of his music is pleasantly (and all the more pleasantly for being well sung) in...
Though royalties piled up, Villa-Lobos never moved from his cramped little apartment in downtown Rio, chaotically cluttered with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in...
"You don't need to understand music," Villa-Lobos says. "You feel it." The music he feels is all the music of his own country. He grows angry when an unwary guest tells him that he sometimes sounds like a Brazilian Gershwin ("A child compared to me"), would be...