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Pan American AirsAre Symphony Hitla blt;odiiaimandtheBy Jim Palmer |Powerful new music of terrific in-pitit -nsity swept through the City Aud ^ itorium Monday as Ernst Hoffman ^ led the Houston Symphony Orehes- ^ tra in a program of Latin American j ^ music from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, I. Chile, and Venezuela. Senora Millaj^ Dominguez, popular soprano from our sister nation, Mexico, was guestertI,anwisoloist. j li.The Orchestra took an ambitious (thprogram of complicated crossrhythm and unusual instrumentation that would severely tax any orchestra in the land in presenting “Three Brazilian Indian Dances” byHector Villa-Lobos, “Black Liturgy”from Cuba's Sanjunn, Manuel Ponce’s symphonic suite “Chapultepec, and the brilliant “Spanish Caprice”mwlt;ryrnof Rimsky-Korsakow. The Symphony met this test well, deliveringa wone of the outstanding concerts ofr.the season.Music is Harsh Vibrant01tl(‘H«No soft tinkling of Spanish gui- n tars go into this modern Latinwlt;fAmerican music, but rather the vibrant, harsh, spirit of the jungle, j ,e Villa-Ixrbos, Kanjuan, and Ponce ^ 1.1 take inspiration not from establish-U ed European modes, but from native 1 Indian and Negro sources. Many in the audience admired this powerful new music, others frankly recoiled, but all agreed that here was something new, a genuine contributionto world culture.?reSenora Sings With SimplicitySenora Dominguez, wife of th#Mexican consul here, sang with anU authentic touch, with beauty, and with simplicity, bringing the graceand charm of Old Mexico into theX.concert hull. She opened her part of) the program with “Pace, Pace, Miol Dio, from Verdi’s “La Forza deli Destine” and continued with Renal-ido Hahn’s well known song, “If My Songs Were Wings Provided.” After an exciting reading by the orchestra n- 0f Chabrier’s “Kspana,” she contin-I ued w ith Ponce’s setting of a poem n‘ by Tagore, “La (iitanilla.”Songs that Americans north andsouth of the border have taken to| their hearts, “Ay! Ay! Ay! and Kstrelllta, ang by Milla Doming-fid uez, brought an ovation hushed only by two encores. “Life” by Curran, and “Allejula” by Tejeda, Conductor he Hoffman was pianist foi her lasttwo songs, ill; Representatives of Central andSouth America were guests of the Houston Symphony Society.
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Houston Cougar
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Fri, Feb 05, 1943
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