Word: vez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter fight between growers and workers, who have been on strike for recognition since last September, had been achieved by the massive support given to the strikers by California's churches. "It is the single most important thing that has helped us," says Cesar Chávez, organizer of the union...
...Moral Issue. When the strike began, Chávez could count on the sympathy of only a few churchmen, mostly the radical young Protestants of the California Migrant Ministry. Gradually, more influential Christian leaders came to see in the strike a moral issue: the need to end the grapes-of-wrath poverty of the farm workers...
...entertainment. But real music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with the New York Philharmonic, premièring a violin concerto by Carlos Chávez, Mexico's foremost contemporary composer...
...however, Chávez is a pioneer modernist who seldom lets a setback take him by surprise. He believes that a new work must mature in the minds of maestro, musicians and public. His patience has often been rewarded. In 1928 he became the founder and conductor of Mexico's first major symphony orchestra. Giving free concerts, he taught his musically illiterate audiences the wonders of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Chávez. His own early compositions, such as the brilliant, flavorful Sinfonia India, in which indigenous folk tunes were distilled with impressive originality, earned him a reputation...
Though he often returns to his home, Chávez has freed himself from more than two decades of dedication to his country's culture. Just back from Germany, this week he will conduct a concert in Portland, Ore., and is slated for another in Chicago. But his lively performances on the podium do not stanch his virtually uninterrupted flow of symphonies, concertos, ballets, string quartets, songs and toccatas. While New York reconsiders the merits of his Symphony No. 6, Chávez is polishing off a new percussion piece and is halfway through Symphony No. 7. "When...