Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Teh really preferred the primitive pleasures of his country home at West Sunit, deep in the steppe. There he forgot the cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...
...would say: "I have such a good time on this ship I ought not to take money for running it." Next day: "I wouldn't take this job again at five times the pay." The crew loved him. The Captain had two distractions: his $200 guitar, on which he played (badly) such tunes as Ida and Wishing and Nobody...
Volckmann's Ilocanos, aggressive and stealthy, had reasonably good military discipline, permitting their wives and girl friends to come along only when the woods were not too full of Japs. Their own leaders included a guitar-strumming Visayan (major in the Philippine Army) and a dashing, bantam-sized onetime provincial governor and newspaper reporter...
Andres Segovia: Music of Albeniz and Granados (Decca, 6 sides). Segovia's fastidious reading of two Spanish composers-on a guitar as sensitive as a harp -makes this the collector's album of the month. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what's wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in her ears took the stage at Manhattan's staid Town Hall...