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Most composers spend the early part of their lives in conservatories of music, where they learn to write potted fugues and hothouse symphonies. But no conservatory ever held Brazil's bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him...
When bluntspoken, disheveled Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it...
Last week in Baltimore Brazilian Pianist Guiomar Novaěs and Conductor Hans Kindler's National Symphony gave one of Villa-Lobos' biggest works its first U. S. hearing. Called Momo Precoce (The Young Momus) after the ancient Greek god of ridicule, the composition depicted the sights & sounds...
The Harvard Music Club program tomorrow evening at Paine Hall is also devoted entirely to chamber music. This program comes closer to home chronologically, for, although it opens with the Beethoven "B-Flat Trio for Clarinet, 'Cello, and Piano" and closes with the Mozart "String Quintet" (two violas), the rest...
In two groups of pieces, Hartmann will play selection from Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Brahms, Debussey, and Villa-Lobos.