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...question pulsing in Mexico's musical clearings last week was whether shaggy Composer-Conductor Carlos Chávez was Mexico's No. 1 artistic director-or its artistic dictator...
Twenty years ago Chávez had rounded up musicians from Mexico City dance halls, movie theaters and churches to form Mexico's first symphony orchestra, made the classics almost as well known as La Cucaracha. Following his lead, four more orchestras started up in the provinces. Chávez' troubles began when his friend President Miguel Alemán asked him to help set up an Institute of Fine Arts to direct Mexico's music, art and theater...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
...Vous a vez bien voulu me transmettre une adresse de remerciements de la part du Conscil des Editeurs des trois grands journaux quotidiens des Universites de Harvard. Yale et Princeton, a Poccasion du don d'un terrain que nous avons ete beureux de faire pour la construction d'une Maison des Etudiants a Paris...