Carlos Chavez and His World

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Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Permissions and Credits xviii PART 1 CHAVEZ'S MUSICAL WORLD Chavez, Modern Music, and the New York Scene 2 CHRISTINA TAYLOR GIBSON Pan/American Modernisms of Carlos Chavez and Henry Cowell 28 STEPHANIE N. STALLINGS The heartbeat of an intense life: Mexican Music and Carlos Chavez's Orquesta Sinfonica de Mexico, 1928-1948 46 RICARDO MIRANDA Carlos Chavez's Symphonies 62 JULIAN ORBON, TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA Carlos Chavez and Silvestre Revueltas: Retracing an Ignored Dialogue 76 ROBERTO KOLB-NEUHAUS Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, and Silvestre Revueltas 99 HOWARD POLLACK PART II BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES Chavez and the Autonomy of the Musical Work: Piano Music 112 LUISA VILAR-PAYA Carlos Chavez and the Myth of the Aztec Renaissance 134 LEONORA SAAVEDRA Non-Repetition and Personal Style in the Inventions and Solis 165 AMY BAUER Music and the Marketplace: On the Backstory of Carlos Chavez's Violin Concerto178 DAVID BRODBECK PART III CHAVEZ'S GREATER WORLD Carlos Chavez and the Mexican Vogue, 1925-1940 204 HELEN DELPAR Carlos Chavez and Paul Strand 220 JAMES KRIPPNER Masters Carlos Chavez and Miguel Covarrubias: A Puppet Show 237 ANTONIO SABORIT, TRANSLATED BY REBECCA LEVI Literary Affinities and Poetic Friendships of Carlos Chavez 255 SUSANA GONZALEZ AKTORIES, TRANSLATED BY REBECCA LEVI Composer as Intellectual: Carlos Chavez and El Colegio Nacional 273 ANA R. ALONSO-MINUTTI Portraits of Carlos Chavez: Testimonies of Collaboration 295 ANNA INDYCH-LOPEZ Modernist Invention of Mexico: Carlos Chavez, the Mexican Revolution, and the Cultural Politics of Music 306 LEON BOTSTEIN Index 339 Notes on the Contributors 357

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