tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post4128226080120459332..comments2024-02-10T07:33:09.862-08:00Comments on The Villa-Lobos Magazine: More home moviesDean Freyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648812085016268727noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post-841539183877774472010-07-26T16:07:35.962-07:002010-07-26T16:07:35.962-07:00Thanks for the link to Evan Jones' shortlist, ...Thanks for the link to Evan Jones' shortlist, Dean -- I will follow it up. It's a pity the video clip doesn't show the whole of Tom Jobim's contribution. In this bit I think he is conveying V-L's ability to focus on writing music in the middle of a cramped and busy domestic environment - working on a huge score with staves running from piccolos at the top to double basses at the bottom, sharing the room with an enormous piano and other household furniture ... <br />I don't recall that clip from the recent Globo TV documentaries about V-L -- perhaps it's from another program. Nice to see Mindinha looking so fresh and sparkling and talking with such animation!Harold Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post-75123743598765595472010-07-26T14:08:28.581-07:002010-07-26T14:08:28.581-07:00Thanks for these comments, Harold. The PratoFeito...Thanks for these comments, Harold. The PratoFeito link is here: http://bit.ly/cnT4by<br /><br />I agree about the Villa-Lobos Quartets. Definitely a strong cycle, but it doesn't belong at the very top. Interesting looking at Evan Jones' "shortlist", from his excellent recent 2-volume book "Intimate Voices": http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9493Dean Freyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10648812085016268727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post-38963069247305805052010-07-26T13:46:04.503-07:002010-07-26T13:46:04.503-07:00Talking of Yerma, I hope some company made a video...Talking of Yerma, I hope some company made a video of the Manaus production (?)Harold Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post-22823482872783721072010-07-26T13:39:26.472-07:002010-07-26T13:39:26.472-07:00Dean, that PratoFeito blog about Yerma is interest...Dean, that PratoFeito blog about Yerma is interesting. Thanks for the link in Twitter. <br />The author certainly isn't short on hyperbole! I don't know any musicologist who would seriously claim that V-L was "the greatest composer of the 20th century", as the blog asserts. Come off it, mate! -- as we say in England. Similarly it annoys me when people claim that V-L's string quartets are the 'equal' of those by Bartok or Shostakovich. Patently absurd. Still, there is only one 20C composer I hold in higher esteem than V-L -- and I'm not talking about that odious man Stravinsky!Harold Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175206.post-36962119495195463222010-07-23T17:50:56.069-07:002010-07-23T17:50:56.069-07:00Thanks for sharing it Dean. How nice :)Thanks for sharing it Dean. How nice :)Christian Sissonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08673814839329351204noreply@blogger.com