Intimate Voices

In November 2009 the University of Rochester Press will publish Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet, Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos, edited by Evan Jones, ISBN: 9781580462297. The book is in the Eastman Studies in Music series, and will be available at Amazon on November 15. The chapter on Villa-Lobos is written by Prof. Eero Tarasti. It's good to see Villa-Lobos has finally made the A-list in a mainstream classical music text. He's in good company:

Debussy
Ravel
Sibelius
Bartók
Hindemith
Schoenberg
Berg
Webern
Prokofiev

and in the second volume:

Shostakovich
Britten
Ligeti
Berio
Xenakis
Scelsi
Cage
Babbitt
Carter
Mel Powell
Shulamit Ran

An interesting subtext of my Villa-Lobos career (which began with the creation of the Villa-Lobos Website in 1995) has been the slow but steady rise of Villa's reputation. Since then an explosion of recordings and live performances has raised his profile, and the music is speaking for itself.