Word: chokopul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...Chokopul (Conductor Leopold Stokowski) returned to his own people six weeks ago and as a souvenir of his travels he presented with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last week the world premiere of H. P., a "ballet-symphony" written five years ago by Carlos Chavez, the Mexican who guided him on his musical tour. Ravel's L'Heitre Espagnole served as curtain-raiser, a naughty opera concerning a clockmaker's insatiable wife, never intended for the literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters...
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