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Boston Symphony will play for a third consecutive smash week. Villa-Lobos' Symphony No. 11, conducted by the composer, will be performed for the first time. Also Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, but bad flying conditions prevent their personal appearances. At 8:30 p.m. tonight.
The studies of store fronts are now familiar, not for the Victorian corsets or the old top hats, but for Atget's treatment of glass and reflection, which is strikingly modern, indeed almost surrealistic. His photographs were in fact first published in a Surrealistic magazine in 1926. The study of...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (French National Orchestra conducted by the composer; Angel). The eighth of Villa-Lobos' nine important works inspired by Bach and flavored by Brazil in its first recording. The music is mellow, slightly warmer than body heat, touched with musical humor in the paso...
Composer Villa-Lobos cares not the flick of a grace note if some of his music sounds flimsy. "Better that people should hear bad Villa-Lobos than good somebody else," is his motto. When told that a theme of his sounds like something else, it is news (but not bad...
"I write as I feel, guided by impulse and thinking of humanity," he says. "I don't think of history, posterity, fashion or politics." Villa-Lobos is breathing much urban, northern-hemisphere air these days (after his U.S. concerts he is off for a Continental tour next month), but...