Report from Paris

In a recent column Alexandre Freitas provides some information on "Hommage à Villa-Lobos", an international conference that took place at the Sorbonne on December 14-15, 2009. This event attracted some of the most distinguished European scholars, including Eero Tarasti from Helsinki, the semiologist turned Villa-Lobos biographer, and Anaïs Flechet from Paris, who has recently written a Villa-Lobos book. As well, there were reports from Brazilian musicians such as Sonia Rubinsky, Roberto Duarte, and Ricardo Tacuchian.

There's more information on the Conference here.