Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruelly betrayed by her lover and falls dead at his wedding. The gypsy's passion and her pathos are exploited to the full by Spanish Soprano Victoria de los Angeles-unfortunately without much help from supporting singers. Falla's early work is studded with folk dances and flamenco songs, all fierily clicked off by the National Orchestra of Spain, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting...
...Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...
Fado is to Portugal what flamenco is to Spain, what the blues is to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1964). Yet, unlike those widely exported musical forms, fado has been taken abroad successfully by only one singer: Amália Rodrigues. Last week, at the behest of Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, she made her U.S. concert debut with the New York Philharmonic as part of its summer Promenades series. Singing fado in the rich expanse of Philharmonic Hall-with the audience sitting at café tables sipping champagne and munching Fritos-seemed as out of place as singing spirituals...
...Grace disappeared in the powder room; Rainier drifted outside to have a smoke with the Duke of Medinaceli. It was Ambassador Duke who finally took Jackie by the arm and steered her through the throng of 2,500 guests toward one of the antechambers set aside for late-night flamenco. It was so packed that they never did get in. At 2:45 a.m., Ambassador Duke drove her home in Alba's Citroen...
...there were mule-drawn carriage rides through the gaily decked-out streets. By night, Jackie braved the crowds to see the flamenco dancers in the private casetas, or tents, set up on the outskirts of the city. By midweek, Garrigues had arrived from Rome to squire Jackie about Seville. Piling her into a car with two other guests of the Albas, Garrigues even managed to take Jackie on an incognita tour of the city, stopping off to visit the cathedral and the Alcázar without being recognized. Swinging into the spirit of the feria, Jackie donned the traditional comb...