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...Segovia on Tour...
...Your report that Andrés Segovia has retired and stopped giving concerts is incorrect...
...Segovia is definitely not retiring; he is contracted to tour North America for a minimum of eight weeks from Jan. 11, 1974, with recitals in major cities throughout the country...
...waited until the boy was three years old before I started teaching him the guitar," Andrés Segovia, 80, said about the lessons he gives Carlos, his son by his second wife Emilia, 36. He is now two months past his third birthday, and Papa thinks "he's going to be very good. We practice one or two hours every day." Segovia, the world's master guitarist, has retired to Spain's Costa del Sol and stopped giving concerts: "How can I stomp the world again when all I want to do is be with...
...galvanic twitches, the hand reaching for the heart, the chainsmoking, the downing of quarts of coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...