Word: albeniz
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...Segovia is to the guitar what La Argentina is to the castanets, Casals to the cello, Kreisler to the violin. Last year his U. S. debut was one of the major events of the season. Last week he played again without accompaniment, music by Handel, Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, with such skill and understanding as to hold his Manhattan audience rapt...
Conductor Arbos established Spanish composers and his orchestra on good footing. Halffter, de Falla, Carelli, Espla, Turina, Granados, Albeniz, del Campo, Salazar and many another gained courage & the means of living...
...leading of the New York Symphony Orchestra-through the first U. S. performance of Ernest Halffter's Sinfonietta and his own orchestral transcription of Albeniz's La Fete de Dieu a Seville and Triana-was graceful, gentle & genteel...
...shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments the music was bright, crackling like a harp's chord, then full, glowing like an E 'cello. Always it was more than a guitar...
...following program is scheduled for tonight's Pops: March Schubert-Casella Overture to "Oberon" Weber Ballet Suite from "Cephalus and Procris" Gretry-Mottl "The Flying Dutehman," Overture Wagner Spanish Dances Moskowski Cordoba Albeniz-Jacchia Three Dances form "The Three Cornered Hat" De Falla "Espana." Rhapsody Chabrier Indian War Dance Skilton Prelude to "Khovantchina" Moussorgsky Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner