Welcome to The Villa-Lobos Website - Heitor Villa-Lobos on the web, since 1995
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Uirapuru One of the first great works written by Villa-Lobos was the ballet Uirapuru from 1917. Birds and bird-song play as important a part in Villa's music as they do in that of his friend Messiaen. This picture of the Leucolepsis modulator is on a 1968 Brazilian stamp. However, Wikipedia refers to the Uirapuru, or Musician Wren, as Cyphorhinus arada.
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New Logo for the HVL Website
The great modernist artist Tarsila do Amaral was born in São Paulo state just a few months before Villa-Lobos, on September 1, 1886. A little doodle of hers from the 1920s has become the logo for this site.
Tarsila and Villa-Lobos probably came across each other first in Paris in the early 1920s. Back in Brazil the two became key figures in Brazil's most important artistic event, the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art), February 11-18, 1922, in São Paulo.
Tarsila's link to Villa-Lobos is about more than their shared modernism. As the painter herself said,
"I feel myself ever more Brazilian. I want to be the painter of my country."
Tarsila is a visual Villa-Lobos; Villa-Lobos is a musical Tarsila.
Villa-Lobos NOT Heitor: Villalobos & Villa-Lobos on the Web
I'm well into my second decade of searching for Villa-Lobos mentions on the web, so I've learned a lot about all the other Villaloboses that are out there. Here are some "false positives": the non-Heitor Villa-Lobos web world.
Ricardo Villalobos: the Chilean techno music star.
Dado Villa-Lobos: guitarist who was once a member of the rock band Legião Urbana.
Shopping Villa-Lobos: a shopping centre in Rio de Janeiro. Often referred to as simply "Villa-Lobos". The centre paid homage to its namesake in the Ano Villa-Lobos by hosting the exhibition "Villa-Lobos: Uma vida em Sete Notas".
Ibero-American Guitar Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian
Ibero-American Guitar Festival: A Tribute to Heitor Villa-Lobos
National Museum of the American Indian
4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20560
Friday, June 19, 2009
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
HEITOR VILLA LOBOS
OPENING OF VILLALOBOS DISPLAY
08:00 PM
FABIO ZANON
Classical Guitar - Concert
HAMILTON DE HOLANDA
Mandolin - Concert
Saturday, June 20, 2009...
Tweeting Villa-Lobos
Like everyone else in the Known Universe, I've started posting to Twitter - you can follow my tweets about Villa-Lobos (mainly) at twitter.com/villa_lobos.
I've also added a feed of Twitter posts with the string "villa-lobos", which is included in the Newsfeed link on the left side of this website. Though there are more than a few Portuguese tweets that talk about "goin' down to villa lobos" [Parque Villa-Lobos in Sao Paulo, or Shopping Villa-Lobos in Rio], I've come across lots of interesting tweets, especially from musicians around the world. Give it a try.
