Word: flamencos
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Rolf Cahn has arrived in Cambridge on his yearly pilgrimage reviving old arguments about all aspects of his music. Is he a good blues singer? is he a competent flamenco guitarist? is his guitar playing too mechanical...
Saints Go Marching In. Grenadine gypsies taught him the primary skills of flamenco. Arabian Bedouins took him into their camps, listened to On Top of Old Smoky in a semitrance beneath the desert stars, and fed him sheep's eyeballs in glorious reward. He swallowed hard and fast...
...walked up to Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself...
...hardly fair to complain that Nin's El pano murciano is not an especially interesting song when she is warbling her way through it. The encores included the inevitable Clavelitos, but some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...
...rumor that a movie is to be made about Brother Edward, to be called 'I Was a Teen-Age Senator' ") with tributes to the President, and introduced a parade of first-rate entertainers. Yves Montand sang his French songs, Spain's Antonio danced with his flamenco ballet company, George Burns and Carol Channing joked. Comedienne Carol Burnett called the President "a regular pussycat." The big hit of the show was the New York City Ballet, doing excerpts from Stars and Stripes...