Word: caturla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alejandro GarcfaCaturla: Suite No. 1 (Soloists of the French Radio Orchestra conducted by Georges Tzipine; Angel). A 1932 composition for winds and piano by Cuba's late, strongly original Composer Caturla. The intent of the work was to reveal folk and Negro themes in a concert setting, but its free-ranging style seems born of a broader world. Fascinating listening, right up to the fierce finale...
Ducats from the King. Last week in Granada, Zurbaran was having his first public exhibit since 1905. A small, handsome and tireless woman named Maria Luisa Caturla had helped to collect 60-odd paintings and bring them to Granada for a show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show...
...Sleuth Caturla's most exciting find: magnificent series of ten scenes of The Labors of Hercules, done against mythical backgrounds. For years the ten had gathered dust in the vaults of Madrid's famed Prado Museum. Experts thought that they might be Zurbaran's work, but no one was sure. Rooting around in the archives, Maria Luisa Caturla was rewarded with a faded document bearing the seal of Philip IV's royal notary and stating that Francisco Zurbaran had been paid 1,100 ducats for a series of paintings representing Hercules and his tasks...
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