Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showcase for remarkable performers and the visual panache of its creators, Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Tango Argentino, Flamenco Puro), this is gorgeous and joyous entertainment. And in its reverence for veteran talents, the kind who have bounced from headlining to working as kitchen help and back again, the show is faithful to the folkloric traditions of tap, jazz and blues...
...Gypsyfied merging of Spanish and French, sold well over a million copies in Europe and interested the intrepid Elektra in a U.S. release. All members of the same family, the Gipsy Kings make up a jolly band that combines the sly funk of salsa and the brio of flamenco with some of the blowout intensity of rock. The band does have mainstream appeal. The "adult contemporary" step-uncle of MTV, VH-1, recently chose the Kings' video of their Bamboleo single for its "Pick of the Week," and the band is hardly shy around sentiment. Its version of the French...
They laughed when Andres Segovia sat down to play the guitar. The nerve of the ( man, bringing a flamenco instrument into the hallowed precincts of the concert hall. "That stupid young fellow is making useless efforts to change the guitar -- with its mysterious, Dionysiac nature -- into an Apollonian instrument," wrote one skeptic after Segovia's 1910 debut in Madrid. "The guitar responds to the passionate exaltation of Andalusian folklore, but not to the precision, order and structure of classical music...
...such feelings practically from the cradle. When Andres was a child, his uncle would strum an imaginary guitar and sing: "To play the guitar/ You need no 'science'/ Only a strong arm/ And perseverance." Segovia took this instruction to heart; aside from a few lessons from a strolling flamenco player, he was self-taught. His tastes, though, were sophisticated: Spanish music by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, baroque music by Bach and Purcell and works by such contemporaries as Benjamin Britten and Heitor Villa- Lobos, many of which were written especially...
...those who like to stretch the body as well as the mind, organizers have planned an excursion to the Essex Country Club where reunion-goers can participate in golf and tennis tournaments and recreational sports. Evening entertainment for the Class of 1962 ranges from a Flamenco Cabaret to a formal dinner and dance, where alumni will have the chance to hash over college memories...