Word: amalia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...
Castoff. In Rio de Janeiro, Amalia, an aging elephant, took sick, was purged, passed an old tennis shoe...