Querétaro 2016

On Monday evening, February 22, Lois and I gave a charla to our regular Monday night gathering of people interested in Mexican history. We expressed our enthusiasm for Carlos Chávez, the outstanding 20th century composer and arts advocate. We showed a series of slides and musical exerpts. For those who have an interest awakened in Chávez and his music and life, we've assembled references here to help with 'digging deeper'.

References

The research volume for the Bard Festival on Chávez, edited by L. Saavedra: http://www.amazon.com/Carlos-Ch%C3%A1vez-World-Music-Festival/dp/0691169489/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456269787&sr=8-1&keywords=saavedra+chavez

A detailed program for the conference, ‘brief’ version: program1

The complete program book, http://issuu.com/fishercenter/docs/chavez_program_8_3_15/1?e=3373405/14566460

The New York Times review of the Festival: NewYorkTimes

Here is a possibly complete list of Chávez works, organized by ensemble and with some helpful supporting material:
http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/works/Carlos-Ch%C3%A1vez

Here is an extensive discography:
http://craton.chez.com/musique/chavez/disc.htm

The Wikipedia article on Chávez has another complete list of works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ch%C3%A1vez

This is a search for “Carlos Chávez” on YouTube: It includes some items that are actually unrelated to the Mexican composer:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEhOjlxvfcZUr0wdXvEXjZMqh7QqqIeg-

Complete Recordings

The clips we played were excerpted from complete recordings. Most of those came from YouTube. In cases where we used a different recording, from a CD, we’ve provided a suitable online source instead.

Three Pieces for Guitar
-Movements:
I LARGO
II TRANQUILO
III UN POCO MOSSO
Enrique Pedregal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSinZe4RndE

Foxtrot
Not available

Sinfonía de Antigona
Orquesta Filarmónica de la ciudad de México, Director Enrique Bátiz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb7wyhAVW88

Cantos de Mexico
Orquesta Pasatono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDJY0q5-1M

Obertura Republicana
Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYGMgEn3pRA

Sinfonía India
Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, Director Carlos Miguel Prieto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEJ40UlIweo

El Salon Mexico, Aaron Copland
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15G8yE-ioSA

Sarabanda for Strings
Festival Orchestra of Mexico, Enrique Batiz conducting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65E9_J6_o0

Violin Concerto
Henryk Szeryng, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXrIALqNYQ

Xochipilli
Pasatono Orquesta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNqJRjxuE3M