Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not. As Anna, she sweeps across the stage with more charm and grace than it seems possible for a woman to command. Her voice is thin, but it is clear and sweet. And, as always, her high-comedy acting is a sheer delight, Yul Brynner, a veteran of "Lute Song," plays the King, and he brings to the part an excellent voice and some fine, convincing acting. Doretta Morrow and Dorothy Sarnoff are both impressive performers and singers, and they are both probably quite beautiful, underneath their Oriental make-up. The rest of the adult east is also sprightly...
...From a California court came a blue note for lute-voiced Frank Sinatra: there would be no divorce. After eleven years of marriage, wife Nancy won a separate maintenance suit and a third of Frankie's $1,000,000-a-year income...
...Grant was made publisher, took over direction of the Journal from the aging, ailing owner and poured all of his tremendous energies into building up the paper. When old Lute Nieman died in 1935, followed a few months later by his widow,* the Journal went on the block...
...meager score of existing guitar literature he had added more than 150 of his own transcriptions of works for harpsichord, lute, violin and piano by the world's great composers. Modern composers, hearing Segovia, began writing music especially for the guitar...
...Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...