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...guitar; Pepe Valencia, voice; Westminster). The guitar is one instrument that sounds better on records than in the concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...
...stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic...
Showtime . . . U.S.A. (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Comedienne Beatrice Kaye and Guitarist Andres Segovia...
Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
...Segovia is beginning a tour that will take him to Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...