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Last week Mexico's No. 1 musician, wiry, dynamic Carlos Chavez, entered NBC's Studio 8-H to conduct the first of two Saturday night broadcasts. First to follow famed Maestro Toscanini at the head of NBC's new $600,000-a-year radio orchestra, Conductor Chavez drew a studio audience in which the mink coats and white ties of previous broadcasts were conspicuously absent. Programmed were two of Conductor Chavez' own compositions: the energetic, Stravinsky-influenced Sinfonia de Antigona; and the Sinfonia India, in which Composer Chavez uses several authentic Mexican Indian themes...
Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
...drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco. To Klemperer went the job of rebuilding the new orchestra. He heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into top-notch form, followed with a series...
...suspected of a jewel robbery. The local military party, whose uniforms resemble those of the Canadian Mounted Police, are also looking for a jewel thief-an English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible sequences: Lieutenant Chavez (Harold Huber) thrice presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter stopped and searched at sea, proclaiming his outraged...
...Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged $30,000 to a $300,000 subscription drive. Although $200,000 were still wanting and their plans had not crystallized, the Board refused to continue Modarelli in a higher rank than assistant conductor, would not give him a definite conducting schedule. From Wheeling...