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Villa-Lobos: Seréstas (Jennie Tourel, with orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos; Columbia, 4 sides). The Metropolitan soprano trills nationalistic Brazilian serenades like an Amazon jungle bird. Performance: excellent. Recording: fair.
The Villa-Lobos legend (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940, et seq.) goes back to his youth, when he picked up a living playing in Brazilian cafes and theaters. When he be came known as a composer, he voiced a characteristic self-tribute: "Better bad of mine than good of others." Sent...
What Is Inspiration? Now a celebrity who frankly enjoys basking in his own effulgence, Brazil's music boss has made music study compulsory in Brazilian schools. He freely advises all young Western Hemisphere composers to stop leaning on Europe for inspiration and look to their own landscape, folklore, traditions...
His style, as tingling U.S. ears have been discovering, is a dazzling, ingenious mixture of jungle boogie-woogie, sophisticated orchestration, 5-16 rhythms, Latin dance tunes and instrumental oddities. Manhattan's Philharmonic -Symphony, playing two of his major works (Choros No. 8 and 9) last week with Villa-Lobos...
As Villa-Lobos explains it, his music is emphatically not "a device for amusement or for quieting the nerves." His Choros are an effort at "a serious music . . . with all the elements of my country welded together-the birds, the forests, the mountains, the Indians, the cries, the people, and...