Heitor Villa-Lobos Website

São Paulo, 18 de Abril de 2012 - São Paulo

16h00 - Quinteto Brassuka

Série Horizontes Musicais. Moises Américo e Pedro Santos - trompetes, Eder Tavares - trompa, Tiago Azevedo - trombone e Marcos Tudeia - tuba. Programa: obras de Ary Barroso, Villa-Lobos, Sonny Kompanek e Handy, entre outros. Entrada franca.
Local: CEU Campo Limpo
Av. Carlos Lacerda, 678 - Chácara São Pedro - Tel. (11) 5843-4838 (400 lugares) *

Library Colloquia Series - Heitor Villa-Lobos at the 1939 World's Fair: Brazilian Identity and the Path to Universalism

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Location:
MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, W449
Cost:
Free
Sponsors:
MSU Libraries
Categories:
Music
Formats:
Lecture, presentation, reading, or discussion
Audiences:
MSU Community
Students
General Public
Description:

Carol Hess, Professor of Musicology, College of Music
What do we in the United States know about Latin American music and how do we know it? This lecture is part of a broader study that seeks to illuminate this question by considering the experiences of the co-called Big Three of twentieth-century Latin American art music: Carlos Chávez (Mexico), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), and Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil). The first focus will be on ways in which Villa-Lobos's music was understood when it was performed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, an extravaganza that freely mixed high art and crass commercialism. The influence of these initial impressions will be traced and argued that they continue to influence musical life today.

Refreshments will be served.