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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.