Performance

Work by Heitor Villa-Lobos

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At David Geffen Hall, NY Phil musicians step into chamber scale with a work by Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Brazilian modernist who folded street and folk materials into classical forms. The New York Philharmonic joins featured performers Lisa GiHae Kim, Kyung Ji Min, Anna Rabinova, and Leah Ferguson in a program that places Villa-Lobos alongside Schuller, Tchaikovsky, and Gubaidulina, tracing different ideas of tradition and experiment. Villa-Lobos’s music matters in New York because it helped widen the city’s concert repertoire beyond the Eurocentric canon, even when it arrived here through intermittent premieres and revivals. It often turns counterpoint into rhythm, and rhythm into identity.