Word: brazill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
No.1 composer of Brazil is hardworking, talkative, frantic Heitor Villa-Lobos. whose bumptious exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing...
...contours of Brazil on music paper, Villa-Lobos invented a "millimetric musical chart"-a graph on which he placed, in vertical columns on the left side, the diatonic, chromatic and other scales, with one note for each horizontal line. Villa-Lobos got photographs of Brazil's major mountains, took tracings of their outlines. When he put a tracing on the graph, with the base of the mountain on any note that suited his fancy, he had something...
Villa-Lobos realized that music could thus be charted from business indices, people's profiles (turned on their side), or even a random scrawl. As director of Brazil's public musical education, he tried out his idea on school children. Last week many a Brazilian moppet, playing at composing, drew jagged lines on paper, superimposed them on a millimetric chart (with the chromatic scale only), rushed to a piano to hear the result...
When World War I threatened its manganese supply, the U. S. increased purchases of ore from Cuba and Brazil, began working its own submarginal deposits. In 1918, by exploiting low-grade deposits in Montana and California, the U. S. produced 16.8% of the world supply (35% of its own consumption). Its cost was so high that within a few years after the Armistice domestic production had dribbled almost to the vanishing point. Steelmen wrote off the U. S., along with Cuba, as sources of manganese. Last week it appeared from the annual report of Freeport Sulphur Co. that steelmen...
...while, in the shadows at the back of the hall, sat a swart, beady-eyed Indian Sikh who neither laughed at Sir Michael's jests nor applauded his jibes. Udham Singh Bawa had left India seven years ago, reaching Europe by way of California and Brazil. For five years he had lived a hermitic existence in England, his one thought to avenge a brother killed at Amritsar...