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University Of Texas Cameras Reeord Mexican Art, MusicAU’STVN, Oct ,4— —Cornerstone for a storehouse of int*r-Agericm culture has been laid by the University of Texas Institute of Latin-American Studies, in two camera collections lt;f 'Mexican colonial art and music acquired this summer.A univer*ity artist and musi-c an were dispatched south of the border to make the first recordings ever permitted of Mexico's cultural treasures.Tli idea ;s that two peoples see eye to eye and hear ear to ear more quickly on tie subjects lt;f art and music than on trade and p litics. The university’s aim is to mold this common apprecia-t on into rtal understanding that will be th foundation for futurefeed neighborlinew,”To build a foundati n. Albert T Luper. violinist and Latu -American music authority, was sent to Mlt; xic to locate and bring backmicrofilm copies of that country's j Colonial church music. Another j university professor. Gibson Danes artist, with photographer Wilbur I Seiders. was sknt to make koda-chrome slide.- exact color reproduct i ns of Mexico’s art from Ax tec designs to the frescos in thenew Supreme Court building in Mexico CrtyMaking lt;ne of the first -uecess-ful ..t tempts to unearth Mexico’s 16th and 1 Tth century ecclesiastical music Luper has brought back microfilm—exact miniature reproductions—of two volumes of the works of Duarte Lcbo, Portuguese musician, one vmum:* of music by Fernando Franco, first New World C' trvposer. and a photostatic copy of a Villancico, by Antonio de Salazar, violmisrt and ch ir master ! of the cathedral in Mexico City about 1708.Carefully guarded fmm local or foreign enemies of the church the I music was mud.* available to Lup-j er, who has a background of resi-dtnce and a study in Brazil and P rtutral, through the aid of church officials and Mexican musician- The Archbishop lt;f Mexico City, Vicente Mendoza, guest instructor at the university’s institute a year ago. Jesus Estrada. National Conservatory professor Mm uel M. Ponce, composer, wereamong those cooperating with theinstitute^ plans.5piper’s plan is to transcribe the music, which numbers ab ut 20 compositions by Lobo and about10 by Franco, from the old to present-day a cappela form and hav* some of it studied a id sung ! by university studentsMaking nwnv first photognpahs of the ’ art that (Mexicans have btcn looking at since the 16th * century, Danes made slides telling the st ry of art from Indian pyramids to contemporary frescos.For studv of art before Cortez,w the work of the Tarasean. Aztec. Toltec. Mayan, and Zapotec Indian* —- including their sculpture, pottery jewelry, pyramids — wasphotographed.Mexico’s cathedrals of the 16th•through the 18th centuries were ph tographed inside rnd out to show the development of art during the colonial period. Religiouspaintings, many of them made available fbr their first reprlt;*duc-tions in color, am also amongDane’s prizes.Modern art—lyth and 20th cen-ture—is represented .n -the collection cf slides of fresco*, oils, and water colors, by Mexico’s leading artists, including Orozco, Rivera Siqueiros, Romero, Ruiz, und Ilt;a-zano.Danes proposes to make the Mox ican art slides available to colleges, universities, art schools everthe United States.The Latin-American institute’slong-range drea niis to continue the research begun by Luper andDanes to build the university’s collection of Latin-American music and art, ancient and modem,into a storehouse of Inter-American culture The university already offers courses in art in I«it-in America and Latin American music and houses a growing number if Latin American music reproductions.
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McAllen Daily Press
McAllen, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 05, 1941
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