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Word: sinfonica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aztec Music, Reconstructed | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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