Word: iturbi
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...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
DIED. José Iturbi, 84, Spanish pianist and conductor who popularized classical music by performing in a medley of 1940s movies like A Song to Remember (1945); of coronary disease; in Los Angeles...
Performers at the Tabernacle may not have to be totally devout, but behavior must be impeccable. Soprano Roberta Peters inadvertently caused a scandal once when she was served a cup of tea onstage during rehearsal; tea and coffee are forbidden the Mormons. So are alcoholic beverages. Pianist Jose Iturbi narrowly avoided greater disaster when a bottle of Scotch broke on the floor of his Tabernacle dressing room. A kindly janitor cleaned it up, and kept his mouth shut...
...with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because, as she says quite reasonably, "women and men are together in life." Along with her various orchestras, sheponducted a running feud with Pianist Jose Iturbi, who allowed lhat he thought the female gender made for a certain frailty of musician ship. Antonia is modest only in aspect, not in intention. Collins and Godmilow mean to show that a musician of invigorating talent was shunted aside because of a prejudice against her sex that still prevails...
Died. Amparo Iturbi, 70, José Iturbi's younger sister and a piano virtuoso in her own right; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Though overshadowed by her brother, Amparo carved out a successful career with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad; she won special acclaim for her interpretations of Granados' difficult "Goyescas...