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Almost all her life, Amparo Iturbi has played second piano to her famous brother Jose. If they weren't rippling away together on the Mozart concerto for two pianos, Jose was usually on the podium, conducting while she pounded out the solo part. One of Jose's favorite cracks: "I am my sister's worst enemy...
Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
Iturbi mugged with Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, played The Donkey Serenade and conducted an 18-piano ensemble in a Technicolor thrashing of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In his fifth picture (Holiday in Mexico) he appears with three other Iturbis-his sister, Amparo Iturbi, and his two grandchildren, Antonia and Teresa...