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At 18, a Brazilian musician named Heitor Villa-Lobos sold some rare books left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled...
¶ The 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.
At week's end. Pianist Novaë's was back in Town Hall, where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the...
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...
Since there was little available music for solo harp and he has "no ability for composing" either, Zabaleta decided that he must uncover music written for the harp rather than resort to arrangements. For a year and a half he searched the libraries of Europe, turned up some surprising finds...