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Mute Fruit. Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia recently stopped a performance in Chicago, whipped out an enormous handkerchief, and honked and wheezed along with the audience. Jascha Heifetz prefers the withering glare or, if things get too bad, departure. The late Sir Thomas Beecham was even less subtle, once whirled on the podium and roared: "Shut up, you fools...
...quote Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia [Oct. 29] as asking: "Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or an electric singer?" There are at least nine patents on electric violins. Moreover, there are patents on electric musical instruments wherein the voice of a singer, say Crosby, is recorded note by note through his full range, so that any tune can be played on these instruments, with the Crosby voice emanating for all notes and chords fingered...
...cheered Beatle George Harrison a while ago, "he's the daddy of us all!" Someone finally got around to asking the proud daddy-o himself about it when he arrived in London on an English concert tour. "Daddy of them?" winced Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia, 71. "The Beatles are very nice young men, no doubt, but their music is horrible. The electric guitar is an abomination. Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or, for that matter, an electric singer...
JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally-his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra...
...Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic of Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight, is packing up in Madrid, but Henry Fonda is just digging in around Segovia for The Battle of the Bulge. And in suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow, 1,500 Red revolutionaries have just taken over a ten-acre mock-up of Moscow. The film is Doctor...