Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highlights of the entire production is John Graef as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. With Graef's rich voice, excellent enunciation, and unctuously sinister air, it is difficult to imagine more perfect casting...
...alternated between Arab dynasties and the indigenous Berbers. The empire waxed and waned but was never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan is of a dynasty founded in 1660, claims direct descent from the Prophet's only daughter, Fatima. This gives him baraka, the spiritual quality that makes it lucky just to kiss his garments and gives him special title to spiritual (as well as temporal...
...architecture, Jarrell found it flourishing. "Even colleges have stopped rebuilding the cathedrals of Europe on their campuses; and a mansion is what it is, not because a millionaire has dreamed of the Alhambra, but because an architect has dreamed of the marriage of Frank Lloyd Wright and a silo . . . The public that lives in the houses our architects design ... is a broadminded, tolerant, adventurous public, one that has triumphed over inherited prejudice to an astonishing degree. You can put a spherical plastic gas tower on aluminum stilts, divide it into rooms, and quite a few people will be willing...
...will compose and conduct two pieces for Stuttgart's festival of popular music, has agreed to compose and arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular...
CAROLYN C. WOOD Alhambra, Calif...