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A small section from the prolific output of Hector Villa-Lobos has been released this month in an album by Victor. The works chosen, while not the very best of this composer, do give an idea of his versatility and individualty of style. The first number, an Introduction, Prelude and...
South American Chamber Music (Soprano Olga Averino, Violinist Alfredo St Malo, Cellist Fritz Magg, Pianist-Arranger Nicolas Slonimsky; Columbia: 8 sides-$4.50). Proving that Brazil's Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez...
Best-known South American composer is Heitor Villa-Lobos, talkative, self-taught Brazilian, a man of tremendous energy who has written more than 1,400 pieces, and has said, "Better bad of mine than good of others." Last week, in connection with a big show of paintings by Brazil'...
Most popular Brazilian musical form is the chôro (pronounced shoro}, in which one instrument in an ensemble improvises on a theme, in about the same way that a U. S. jazz musician "takes a chorus" for a solo ride. Villa-Lobos has composed 14 choros, ranging from...
At the final concerts Pianist Artur Rubinstein, an early admirer of Villa-Lobos. played apiece called Rudepôema ("Savage Poem") which Villa-Lobos had intended to be both a portrait of the pianist and the most difficult piano work ever composed. Whether or not its brilliantly wham-banging measures...