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23 WILHEM LATCHOUMIA What do you think of New York Skyline Melody , knowing that Villa-Lobos was inspired by a postcard depicting the city’s skyline to reproduce its geometric profile in music? In combining architecture, mathematics and music, Villa-Lobos was a forerunner of Xenakis! Why did you choose to begin this recital with Chôro no.5? It’s a very intense piece, expressing saudade , that sense of wistful melancholy specific to the alma brasileira . Villa-Lobos conveys this through the irreconcilable rhythmic conflict between the beautiful, unstable melody of Indigenous Brazilian origin and its accompaniment, which generates genuine, deep emotion. Over its successive episodes, it marks out the path that leads to Rudepoêma .