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Last week Manhattan audiences heard something which might have been Aztec music. As a side show of the exhibit of Mexican art at the Museum of Modern Art (see p. 57), a program of Mexican music was worked out by Mexico's swart, amiable, unruly-locked Composer-Conductor Carlos Chavez. A collection of ancient instruments in the Mexican National Museum, and such tomes of conquistador times as the Codex Florentinus (a compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after...
...Modern Museum concerts, Carlos Chavez aimed to capsule Mexico's Indo-Spanish music in a 90-minute program. He trained a pickup, 23 piece Manhattan orchestra, reinforced with a few Mexican guitarists and including five men to bang the tablefuls of kitchenware in the percussion section. Conductor Chavez, with a precise, clean beat and an extraordinarily contented look, led off with three concerts last week, then turned the orchestra over to his assistant, Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, who will lead the same program twice daily until...
Some ten thousand men of Harvard--not to mention nearly half of Cambridge's female population--jammed Sever Quadrangle last evening to hear Conductor Woodworth lead his Glee Club through a program which packed plenty of musical oomph. "Casey Jones" rode the rails again, while Handel's "Samson" buffeted the pillars of Widener. Judging by its tumultuous applause, academic Cambridge clearly appreciated the first of these free, outdoor concerts...
Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...
...court for damages went Union Pacific. Conductor Wilson filed a countersuit, asking $300 damages to his ten-year-old sport coupe. Fortnight ago an Omaha, Neb. jury told Conductor Wilson to pay U. P. $40,025. Last week Conductor Wilson was back at his job, wondering whether to appeal...