Word: xico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
Celebrating his 60th birthday, Composer Copland last week mounted the podium at Carnegie Hall to lead the New York Philharmonic in two compositions-Symphonic Ode (1929) and El Salón México (1936)- that illustrated the range of his own creative career...
...work." A later period was inspired by Cop land's feeling that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began to write his often criticized "popular-style" music, typified by his raucously percussioned, slickly orchestrated El Salón México and by his scores for films (Of Mice and Men), radio (Saga of the Prairie) and ballet (Billy...