Word: andalusians
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...Minor Bach Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation O Who Like Me Bach On Christmas Night Old English--arranged by Vaughn Williams The Hunter Brahms Scripture Luke II, 1-19 Carol of the Flowers Red God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Old English Bethlehem Glatz Folk Song Hymn by Congregation Pampanites Andalusian Folk Song Salvation Is Created Tschesnokoff Three Kings Cornelius Deck the Halls Old English Organ Postlude: Hallelujah Chorus Handel
...that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
...Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...
...bullfighting tradition that, just as no white jazz band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain's matadors gravely considered...
...Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya, in spite of his duchess who used to come to his studio to be rouged by him, worked incessantly. He painted courtiers...