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...Spain last week, all musical roads led to Granada. There, to the historic shadows of the old Moorish Alhambra, came a crowd of festival fans and such internationally famed performers as Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. For Granada, it was the windup of a fortnight of music and dance, the second in two years, which the city fondly hopes will become an annual affair eventually rivaling Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh...
...Frankly Esoteric (Sun. 10 p.m.), which she thinks will appeal to no more than 2% of WNEW's listeners. Described as "the last word in avant-garde art," Frankly Esoteric offered such noncommercial items as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and a harp solo by Nicanor Zabaleta...
Harp Music (Nicanor Zabaleta; Esoteric). Sixteenth century Spanish music of musical as well as archaic charm, and modern French and Spanish pieces, all composed originally for the harp. Zabaleta is a rarity in the flamboyant field of harpists, a miniaturist who specializes in neatness and detail. Recording: lifelike...
...concentration camps, ghettoes, banks, courtrooms, theaters and factories of Europe the Chosen People had assembled and had won their first great military victory since Judas Maccabeus* beat the Syrian Nicanor at Adasa 2,109 years...
...prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers A. B. C., Informaciones, El Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil Guards were stripped of their epaulets. President Alcala Zamora distributed 500,000 pesetas in rewards to the republic's heroes. In Konigswart, Czechoslovakia, onetime King Alfonso denied...