Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lopped off, like a headless amateur photograph, making a violin sound like a flute because its characteristic overtones are gone; its bottom can be restricted, making the basses sound an octave or more higher (or not at all). Overtones can be added that were never played by the musician (harmonic distortion) or be thickened (intermodulation...
When Spain's Civil War was waning in 1938, famed Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals moved just across the Pyrenees into France, vowed that he would not return to his homeland so long as it remained in the grip of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. But last week aged (78) Musician Casals sadly broke his self-exile, went back to his birthplace, the little Spanish village of Vendrell. After he had buried his longtime friend and housekeeper, Francisca Capdevila, in Vendrell's tiny cemetery, lonely Pablo Casals once again turned his back on his homeland, again crossed the mountains...
...Brazilian musician named Heitor Villa-Lobos sold some rare books left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music. Some of his work was jungly, some languid as a slow samba. Villa-Lobos became famed as one of the century's most brilliant composers. Last week, a half century after his first jungle excursion but still a restless wanderer, Composer Villa-Lobos turned up as guest...
Died. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, 68, Mexican career diplomat, onetime (1935-45) ambassador to the U.S., chairman of the U.N. Security Council in 1946, general in the Mexican Army, surgeon, poet and musician; after long illness; in Mexico City. As ambassador to the U.S., Najera worked to implement the Good Neighbor Policy, was instrumental in setting up the 1942 settlement of $40 million in U.S. claims against the Mexican government, including those for American-owned oil lands seized by Mexico...
BEETHOVEN AND HIS NEPHEW, by Editha Sferba and Richard Sferba (351 pp.; Pantheon; $5). The authors are concerned with the vulnerable man, not the venerable musician, and apparently are out to demonstrate, largely using Beethoven's own words against him. that the great composer was insufferable. He was slovenly, sadistic, puritanical, suspicious, demanding, uncontrolled, domineering, violent. After he became guardian of his nephew Karl (the boy's father had died), Beethoven tried to own his life com pletely, eventually drove him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Freudians Richard and Editha Sterba charge Beethoven with an "unconscious homosexual" relationship...