With the recent interest in Villa-Lobos at the Rio Carnaval, it might be a good to remind people of this excellent flash-based site: De Batutas e Batucadas. It tells the fascinating story about the 1940 encounter between Leopold Stokowski and Villa-Lobos. Villa was Stokowski's entrance to the world of popular Brazilian music, and especially to the Choroes and the Samba.
The site includes streaming audio of the most important result of this project: Columbia's album Native Brazilian Music. Highlights include the ground-breaking Pelo Telofone, with Donga and Pixinguinha, and a couple of Macumbas with amazing rhythms. There are also some cool pictures, such as this one from the 1940 Sodade de Cordao, the Carnaval school visited by Villa-Lobos.
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