Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During recent years Spain has sent the U. S. many an expert musician. 'Cellist Pablo Casals and Soprano Lucrezia Bori led the procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...
Andrès Segovia is to the guitar what La Argentina is to the castanets, Casals to the cello, Kreisler to the violin. Last year his U. S. debut was one of the major events of the season. Last week he played again without accompaniment, music by Handel, Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, with such skill and understanding as to hold his Manhattan audience rapt...
From the mountainous central wilds of Neuva Segovia, Nicaragua, the insurgent General Augusto Sandino hurled defiance, last week, at the U. S. Marines who are seeking to exterminate his forces (see below). In a proclamation smuggled to Mexico City and there released General Sandino cries...
Meanwhile General Augusto Sandino had withdrawn his forces in good order to El Chipote, 18 miles distant, in the Nicaraguan department of Neuva Segovia. To exterminate him the U. S. Navy took ships (see ARMY and NAVY...
...living has been a meagre one, eked out on the vaudeville stage, thwanging accompaniments to this ditty and that. Last week in Manhattan, for the first time in memory, it braved a formal recital. There was nothing extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great...