 "Uirapuru" was also included on the programme of the last concert conducted by Villa-Lobos, on 12 July 1959, at the Empire State Music Festival in New York (; ).The title page of the autograph manuscript reads “Uirapuru / (O passaro encantado)/ Bailado brasileiro"// "H. Villa-Lobos/ Rio, 1917"// "A Serge Lifar"// "(Le petit oiseau enchanté)” , but bears on its last page the inscription "Fim, Rio 1917, reformado em 1934" .The completion date of 1917, also given in the official catalogue of works, is improbable in view of two facts