The Quatuor symbolique, for example, is one of Villa's greatest chamber works, from his most creative modernist period. Performers continue to programme the tried-and-true works, but 2009, the Ano Villa-Lobos, has brought lots of more adventurous choices. Quatuor symbolique (Quarteto simbolico).10th, the Heitor Villa-Lobos Celebration II event will include some rarely performed chamber works: On November 8th, soprano Stela Brandao and pianist Max Lifchitz will perform the complete cycle of Modinhas & Canções.
The 2009 version of NYC's Latin American Cultural Week includes two important all Villa-Lobos concerts. If they do, I'll post the information here, and I'll be listening on my great Radio France iPhone app. I'm hoping that Radio France Musique eventually broadcasts all three of these concerts. He did some of his best conducting, and certainly his best recording, in the Radio France studios. He lived there for long periods in the 1920s and the 1950s. Villa-Lobos had a special feeling for the city of Paris. 14, the mini-festival ends with a concert by the Percussions de l'Orchestre National de France. 13, again features Meneses, this time with another stand-out Brazilian instrumentalist: pianist Cristina Ortiz. Featured works include the first suite of the Descobrimento do Brasil and the second Cello Concerto with the great Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses. 12, with a concert of the Orchestre National de France. " Le Week-end Villa-Lobos" is project of Radio France: three concerts in mid-December 2009 which feature the music of Villa-Lobos. I took the guy to walk through my city just to see what was left. Rio was Villa's city, and it's the city of Maltez. One of the things I like most about this art thing is that we can suggest both without having to confirm anything.
Presence is what is the person after it has gone. Here's a bit of Google-translated commentary from Maltez's blog: They're a bit of a challenge coming after the jolly caricatures of a kindly and self-possessed celebrity.
Maltez's blog includes a number of arresting images from this project. That image of a driven composer is only part of a sixty-page book of a an imagined trip by Villa-Lobos through Rio de Janeiro. Maltez drew the cover of Projeto B's new CD A Viagem de Villa-Lobos. This project by artist Manu Maltez looks really cool. And there are some great new caricatures of Villa-Lobos ( here and here), who has been the subject of as many clever but good-natured caricatures as any famous composer I know of. One example is the Tribute to Villa-Lobos at the UN. Tributes to Villa-Lobos on the 50th Anniversary of his death have come from visual as well as musical artists.
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