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Having jacked his legislative score to an even 100 bills, Jack Dempsey, hale & hearty at 61, indicated that he would leave the House, run for the Senate in the fall. His opponent: New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, whose relatives were once involved in a WPA scandal (they were later tried and acquitted), thoroughly disapproved of the Hatch Bill from the start...
...Carlos Chavez, 40, has been Mexico's No. 1 musician ever since he wrote a ballet in 1921 for radical, art-loving Secretary...
...week Manhattan audiences heard something which might have been Aztec music. As a side show of the exhibit of Mexican art at the Museum of Modern Art (see p. 57), a program of Mexican music was worked out by Mexico's swart, amiable, unruly-locked Composer-Conductor Carlos Chavez. A collection of ancient instruments in the Mexican National Museum, and such tomes of conquistador times as the Codex Florentinus (a compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after...
Education Jose Vasconcelos. In 1928 he began building the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mexico for the Mexico City musicians' union, made it a crack 90 man outfit-now subsidized by the Government-to whose free concerts workers flock. On his musically illiterate audiences Chavez has ceaselessly experimented, discovering that where the simplicities of Haydn leave peasants cold, the complexities of Stravinsky roll them in the aisles...
...Modern Museum concerts, Carlos Chavez aimed to capsule Mexico's Indo-Spanish music in a 90-minute program. He trained a pickup, 23 piece Manhattan orchestra, reinforced with a few Mexican guitarists and including five men to bang the tablefuls of kitchenware in the percussion section. Conductor Chavez, with a precise, clean beat and an extraordinarily contented look, led off with three concerts last week, then turned the orchestra over to his assistant, Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, who will lead the same program twice daily until...