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...music, both Samuel Barber and Carlos Chavez, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, are strong candidates, and in the money-raising department--known officially as distinguished service to the University--H. Irving Pratt '26, the new Program Director, and a number of big givers are in the running...
...Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and conductor, will deliver the first of the Spring Series of Charles Eliot Norton Lectures tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater. Performances of Chavez's works will follow the other two lectures in the series, "The Enjoyment of Music" on March 18 and "Composer and Public" on April...
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...
...independence of the Latin American countries in the 1820's caused musicians to turn to folk material of their individual countries for inspiration, Chavez said. However, he pointed out, folk material is limited...
...Chavez underlined the fact that art is still an individual expression and although an individual is molded by his country's traditions, it is the "genius of individual composers that bring forth a country's music...