Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1958, hinted last night at the direction twentieth century music is taking, and sketched the pedigree of Latin American music at "A Latin American Composer," the first of the six Norton Lectures...
...twentieth century is shifting its "musical center of gravity" from "extra-musical" reactions to those "purely musical" Chavez noted. He elaborated this idea by saying that in the nineteenth century "we were too human" and now "we are human in spite of ourselves...
Indian and Mayan artists had developed the musical art to a high degree before the Spanish invasion, Chavez noted, and so were able to absorb the European musical ideas as they were brought over with the conquistadors and priests...
Tonight's lecture, "A Latin American Composer," begins the series of six entitled "The Musical Thought." On Nov. 18 Chavez will speak on "Poetic Communication," and on Dec. 17 his topic will be "Form in Music." There will be three more lectures in the spring...
...Chavez's main works include a variety of symphonies and shorter pieces. The combination of his entirely original works with Mexican folk music has been critically and popularly acclaimed as successful form of contemporary...