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This is "VillaLobos Week"-according to the U.S. League of Composers, which is celebrating the first North American visit of South America's best-known composer: plump, talkative, 57-year-old Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is also the bouncy Brazilian's second week of Manhattan performances and the...
Thus far, besides treating several thousand music lovers to samples of his 1,500-odd works, Villa-Lobos has acquired an ecstatic admiration for tall buildings and vanilla ice cream. In the encounter of two such dynamic protagonists as Villa-Lobos and the U.S., onlookers expected even more to happen...
Scheduled programs deal with folk music, ballads, the opera, the rise of the modern orchestra, and modern American composers such as MacDowell, Loeffier, and Villa Lobos.
Swarthy, dark-eyed Villa-Lobos got there too late for a party at Walt Disney's (it was held anyhow), but not too late for an honorary LL.D. degree from Occidental College and a luncheon at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It was easier said than done. State Department officials having heard that the Brazilian wanted to bring a female companion with him stalled over granting the necessary priorities. Conductor Werner Janssen fumed. So did the Brazilian Consul at Los Angeles. So did the Southern California Council on Inter-American Relations...