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Composer Conductor Julius Chajes
Earns Communal Applause on 70th
Julius Chajes will mark
his 70th birthday on Dec.
21. He will be th 'recipient
of many congratulatory
messages. His friends will
be partying with him. As
organizer and director of the
Center Symphony Or-
chestra, as teacher of many,
as composer of songs and
operettas that have earned
international recognition,
he has gained the status of
leadership in the musical
world.
Yet perhaps the finest
tribute to him will be by a
student, by a lad observing
JULIUS CHAJES
his Bar Mitzva who will use
Chajes' life as the topic of year- . that Hitler came to
power in Germany, and
his speech.
Joel Panitch, the Bar Chajes had the insight and
Mitzva celebrant, writes in foresight to realize that all
European Jewry was in
part:
"In Detroit, we have a danger.
"He, was not going to wait
Jewish composer who
writes Jewigh music. His for Hitler to annex Austria.
name is Julius Chajes. He convinced his father to
Gaining a fine reputation move most of the family to
has been an uphill battle Palestine, a move that
for Julius Chajes. Very saved all their lives.
'Once in Palestine,
strange, for he has
created fine music, con- Chajes became obsessed
ducted the Jewish Center with his Jewish heritage.
Symphony for 41 years, From his non-observant, as-
and taught many of our similated family, he re-
.area's finest piansts.
"Chajes was born in Lvov,
Poland, in 1911. His father
Was a physician and the
family had assimilated into
Polish life as much ' as
possible in anti-Semitic Po-
Robert Fineman, M.D., Ph.D.
land. Lvov constantly
Director. .DiriAion of
changed • governments.
.-1/ediea/ Genetics
When the Poles won domi-
Department Qf PediatricA
nance, a pogrom broke out.
I'nirervity
(*tali
Salt Lake City
The fireman sprayed ben-
and
zene on the houses in the
ghetto. The Chajeses lived
Mark Skolnick, Ph.D.
outside the ghetto and were
Department o/ Medical
relatively safe, but Julius, a
Biophysics'ancf Computing
young boy, could hear the
1-'ni•errity of L•tah
screaming of the Jews and
Salt Lake City
smell the fires. He was sen-
The 1970's saw a surge in both
sitive and the nightmares -
the knowledge and use of genetic
lasted for a long time.
in this nation. Prior
"In grade school, fellow information
to 1%0. facts about basic human
students pushed him and . .gen‘ etics could have been fit into
called him 'Christ Killer. He
slim books. Today. data
iew on research and clinical ex-
knew he'd hurt no one and a based
could not understand. why perience could fill a library
he was hated.
Thy March of Dimes Birth
p I a
Chajes started d
D efect s Foundation pioneered the
the piano when he was 6 1/2 141 .0 „. t h of this field of science.
years old. He advanced very - .1 „st If the more than 1(X) genetic
quickly. At 9, he had his center s throughout the United
first public recital and s tates have been (!stablished with
wrote his first composition, support from the voluntary health
At 10, he was a soloist for ageney. \i hose goal is the preven-
the Lvov Orchestra.
titan of birth defe a ts.
Two years ago. the March of
. 'When he was 10,
Chajes and his family Dimes added to its expanding list
moved to Vienna so he of g rantees by helping us establish
could continue with his the first genetic service program
'musical education. He in Utah. Before that. most Utah
had outgrown his f amilies with inherited disorders
teachers in Lvov. He had had to go to nledieal centers in
fine teachers in Vienna. Denver. Los Angeles. or San Fran
His father searched not eke() for genetic counseling. Nov
for the finest pianist, but we have six satellite clinics besides
for the teacher with the our Salt Lake City location. and
finest pupils. Today, no one in Utah has to tra el more
•Chajes feels this is the th"n 8(1 miles for our ser\ ices.
. Unique resources .
only way to hire a musk
A unique resource of the Utah
teacher — 'If a teacher
has one good student, genetics program is access to ihe
• examine the student. If a archives of the Genealogical So- -
teacher has many good eiety of Utah. Genealogical-rec-
students, examine the ords from the archk es it re being
used as the basis of the program.
teacher.'
"Chajes studied hard and Information regarding birth-. mar-
when he was 22, in 1933, he riage.' and death of 1.3 million
received an honor prize at descendants of the early Utah
the First International pioneers has been converted onto
Competition for Pianists in computer discs. A great deal of
Vienna. It was in this same medical knowledge is also being
ceived only a slight Jewish all aspects of the music
education. Now, he went world and responsible for
every week to temple. He much of our area's finest
searched for his culture. He musical moments. He is
read whatever he could find composer, pianist, conduc-
to complete his education. tor, teacher.
"In 1965, Chajes gave up
While not Orothodox, his
Judaism became part of his concert tours and em-
spirit and expressed itself in phasized his composing. He
has published 70 composi-
his music.
"Until then, Chajes tions. Some took more than
composed music as he a year .to write. One only
had been taught. His took two hours, "Song of
work had been Euro- Galilee," which has sold
pean, melodic and flow- more than 300,000 copies.
"His opera written for
ing. He applied his train-
ing to-some new sounds, Temple Israel has caused
I e
Jewish liturgical music, some confusion. Its,:
Out of the Desert, s
music that had been
transmitted through thought by a local critic
thousands of years, . to reflect the level of
Arabic melodies and music in Detroit. .
"In 1953, he had the
Yiddish and Hasidic
folksong. He was no opportunity to realize his
longer a Jewish com- life's dream. He played his
poser. He became a com- own piano concerto with the
poser of Jewish music. Detroit Symphony
_ Or-
His people's traditions chestra."
and future became his in-
There are three difficul-
spiration and from that
time, his music reflected ties in authorship: to write
anything worth publishing,
it.
"In 1937, Chajes emi- to find honest men to pub-
grated to the United States lish it, and to get • sensible
and soon settled in Detroit. men to read it.
—Colton
Here he has been active in
March of Dimes Helps Establish
Utah Genetic Services Program
-„,
DR. ROBERT FINEMAN and Dr Mark Skolnick analyze a computer-printed
family pedigree. The medical history of a person s ancestors can help in
determining whether a suspected birth disorder is genetic or environmental
in origin. or a combination of the two _,
added rapidly to the data base.
using information obtained from
birth and death certificates. hos-
pital records. and the statewide
Birth Defects Registry ati'd Tumor
Registry.
Medical history ,
II' a person comes to .us with a
suspected genetic disorder. we ask
for information about his her par-
ents' 'zind :..2randparents• medical
history and other pertinent per-
sonal data. Then the - names and
birthdates of these relatives are
typed into the , computer.
prints out a fam ily pedigree.
1 - he more information the eorn-
puler has in its memory about the
medical histories of the patient's
ancestors. the more accurat el \ we
can determine the origin of the
disorder: genetic. environmental.
or a combination of the two. All
of this information is kept in
strict confidence and access to
the computer is limited to protect
patient prkacy.
Besides the diagnosis and count
seling of families w it Ii inherited
birth disorders. the program in-
cludes prenatal diagnosis of
gene-tic disorders. ehromosome
analysis. routine urine n
studies. special enzyme
lies
and follow -up fo'r the statewide
new born . screening program b\
the State Department of Health
for phenylketonuria 1 PIKU ). It\ po-
-th\Toidisill and ,.._!zilactosenlia.
Load triples
In the t\\o sears since the
net ics prograin began. the patient
east.' load has almost tripled. We
continualk add nitre medieAspe
cialists and genetic counselors to
the staff so that we lila\ offer [he
people of 'tali and parts of Idaho.
W\ outing. Ne \ ada and Montana
the best genetic serY ices that the
medical world can provide.