The 500 Cruzado bank-note that featured Villa-Lobos was pulled from circulation when the Cruzado was replaced by the Cruzado Novo in 1989, so it was in place during the 1987 Centennial celebrations. There's more on the history of this note at this post from The Villa-Lobos Magazine.
The future of the Heitor Villa-Lobos Website.
This is the 19th year of the Villa-Lobos Website, which has been an information resource on the web since before blogs, Twitter, even before Google. The website is hosted by Red Deer Public Library, a great organization that I've been Director of all that time. As I look towards my retirement from the Library in July 2013, though, it's time to make a change or even retire the site.
I'm wondering if there's an organization out there that might want to host this site. It would be a shame to lose the information on more than 950 recordings, and especially the fairly comprehensive database of concerts from 1999 to the present. A new host could either post a read-only archive of the existing site, or add content moving forward. Let me know if you have any ideas!
The site has had some significant traffic: 425,000 visits and 1.2 million page views since Google Analytics was turned on in 2008. This is from 205 countries, with 23% of the traffic from Brazil, 22% from the US, and 5% from each of the UK, Canada, & Germany. The site is built in Drupal v.5.
Here are some podcasts and on-demand concerts that include music by Villa-Lobos: