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Here is another illustration is from Fabiana Salomão's Villa Lobos, o maestro.  The young Villa-Lobos jams with his choro friends. Text is by Lúcia Fidalgo (published by Ed.Paulus in 2011).  There are two more illustrations from the book at Salomão's blog. Thanks to Fabiana for her permission to post this here.  By the way, you should follow Fabiana on Twitter: @FabianaSalomao.

The Villa-Lobos Twitter Marathon

#HeitorADay is the hashtag for a new Villa-Lobos Twitter project of mine, based in part on the notoriously large output of the great Brazilian composer, and in part because the music is so great.  I'll be listening to a different Villa-Lobos piece every day, and tweeting about it. I'll keep track of all the tweets here. We'll see how long it takes to use up my pretty extensive Villa-Lobos music collection.

I'm in this for the long haul!  Feel free to listen & tweet along.

Tweets #1 to #32: June 30, and July 1-31, 2011
Tweets #33 to #62: August 2011 
Tweets #63 to #89: September 2011
Tweets #90 to 109: October 2011
Tweets #134 to 142: December 2011

#143 - January 9, 2012 -  Ensemble Peregrinação sings Balaio String Quartet no3, featured in the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art) in Sao Paulo in 1922 - String Quartet no4 - a work from 1917, a great year for Villa-Lobos
#146 - January 12, 2012 - Piano Concerto no1, commissioned in 1945 by Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon Suite no1 for Chamber Orchestra, written in the last year of Villa's life Suite Sugestiva - I love this piece, but it's very hard to find - With the clever L'Homme Tel overture
#149 - January 15, 2012 - Symphony no7 - a fine work from 1945
#150 - January 16, 2012 - Fantasia for cello & orchestra, dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky
#151- January 17, 2012 - Quintette instrumental, for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp - remembering 1920s Paris in 1957
#152 - January 18, 2012 - Tres poemas indigenas from 1929, dedicated to the anthropologist E. Roquette Pinto
#153 - January 19, 2012 - Vidapura, a "mass-oratorio" written in Rio in 1919 - - we need a recording of this important work!
#154 - January 20, 2012 - String Quartet no9 - written during Villa's very busy year of 1945
#155 - January 21, 2012 - Fantasia Concertante for an orchestra of cellos, written for the Violoncello Society - String Quartet no5 . Suffused with folklore, this is the 2nd-most popular String Quartet (after no1).
Quatour Symbolique = Quarteto Simbolico Piano Trio no2, written in 1915 - Poema da crianca e sua mama = Poème de l'enfant et sa mère. Written in Paris in 1923 - Symphony no8 , written in 1950, & dedicated to Villa's NY booster, Olin Downes

 

 

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