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“Villa-Lobos chose to present three such colorful works of his own, all sprawling in form and luxuriant in manner. They leave one astonished, but also quite confused. It is works like these that make Villa-Lobos the pride and despair of his Latin-American colleagues.”

—Aaron Copland, writing about the Festival in Caracas (1954) - Aaron Copland: a reader: selected writings 1923-1972, p. 121-122. (via villa-lobos)