Word: lutes
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...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...
...wrote songs in praise of homosexuality and accompanied them on the lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...