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When young Andrés Segovia told his instructors at Spain's Granada Musical Institute that he wanted to study the guitar rather than the piano or violin, they sniffed. The guitar was an instrument for gypsies, not for a young man who had ambitions to be a musician. Besides, no one at the conservatory knew enough about the guitar to teach it. Teenager Segovia stubbornly set out to teach himself...
...Paris last week, as chubby, greying Andrés Segovia began his 41st year as a concert artist, there was no longer any question about the guitar's status as a concert instrument. For Segovia fans, it had lost practically all its associations with gypsies and romantically inclined caballeros, had become instead a sensitive interpreter of serious music. At 57, Segovia had played in most of the world's concert halls, had long ago won a world reputation as the guitar's acknowledged classical master...
...Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...
Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
...André Derain, too, is now working in ceramics. A big, heavy old man of 70, Derain lives in an 18th Century mansion outside of Paris, draws for two or three hours a day in the park surrounding his house. In his youth his art reflected first Matisse's use of brilliant colors, and later, cubism. Since then it has grown steadily more simple and calm. Derain's subjects and his manner of painting them are never startling, but their clarity and order hold the eye. "The great danger for art," he says, "lies in an excess...