Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos

Arminda and Heitor Villa-Lobos sitting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Arminda is writing in a large book that is supported on a table, which appears in the foreground. In the photograph, there is the following inscription "At 'Waldorf Astoria' in New York January 1945". During this period, the couple was in New York, fulfilling an agenda of concerts and dinners with personalities from the city's musical and cultural world, they also visited other American cities such as Boston and Philadelphia, where Villa-Lobos conducted local orchestras.