Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music, organizing and conducting outdoor song festivals for school children, revamping the teaching methods of Brazil's Department of Musical Education, of which he is superintendent. Since 1931, when he was named to this post, Villa-Lobos has concentrated his energies on spreading music in Brazil. At Sao Paulo, in 1931, he staged the biggest musical event Brazil had ever known by conducting a chorus of 10,000 voices and an orchestra of 400 through a gigantic marathon of native music. Following year, he repeated the performance in Rio's Fluminense Stadium with 18,000 school children. When...