Lecture in Sanders

Carlos Chavez, recognized as one of the foremost Latin American music scholars, will deliver the first Charles Eliot Norton Lecture this evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.

Tonight's lecture, "A Latin American Composer," begins the series of six entitled "The Musical Thought." On Nov. 18 Chavez will speak on "Poetic Communication," and on Dec. 17 his topic will be "Form in Music." There will be three more lectures in the spring.

Chavez's main works include a variety of symphonies and shorter pieces. The combination of his entirely original works with Mexican folk music has been critically and popularly acclaimed as successful form of contemporary art.