Word: orquesta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...
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...
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