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Inhabitants of the quietly arty little town of Carmel, Calif, were enjoying their annual festival of music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Climax of the festival was to have been the unveiling in Carmel's city park of Sculptor Bufano's 14-ft. cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said...
...concert had all the ingredients of a prosaic, academic affair, but the result was anything but stuffy. Three of Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous Brandenburg concertos were to be played by a small body of musicians (such an orchestra as Bach had in mind), with scrupulous regard for the composer's intentions (as deduced from a study of Bach manuscripts), without a conductor (as it would have been played in Bach's day). After Adolf Busch had put his Chamber Music Players through their paces last week in Manhattan's Town Hall-in their first...
Gypsy Amaya's show-and pay roll-includes some of her sisters and her cousins (whom she reckons up by dozens), her father, uncle and brother: 16 flamencos in all. Flamenco Agustin Castellan Sabicas is a wonderful guitarist, and Uncle Sebastian Manzano (hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures...
...Latin taste is an Argentine film, Petróleo (Oil), now showing in Buenos Aires. A Grade B melodrama according to U. S. standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...
Bach: Piano Pieces (Pianist Grace Castagnetta; Victor; 8 sides) and The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach (a book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with...