f Villa-Lobos is reasonably well known performing his own compositions (thanks, especially, to a six-CD collection entitled "Villa-Lobos par Lui Même" and also to the recording of the "Floresta do Amazonas" ("Forest of the Amazon"), both on the EMI label, he is rare as a spokesman for his own work. Here, we present two moments. The first, excerpted from an interview of July 12, 1959 in New York (his last concert), shows an irreverent artist talking about "inspiration".
f Villa-Lobos is reasonably well known performing his own compositions (thanks, especially, to a six-CD collection entitled "Villa-Lobos par Lui Même" and also to the recording of the "Floresta do Amazonas" ("Forest of the Amazon"), both on the EMI label, he is rare as a spokesman for his own work. Here, we present two moments. The first, excerpted from an interview of July 12, 1959 in New York (his last concert), shows an irreverent artist talking about "inspiration".
