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Spain's 41-year-old Don Jaime de Bourbon, Duke of Segovia, born deaf & dumb, has always led the quiet life, devoted himself intently to lip reading and to learning to talk which he now does, blurrily but intelligibly, in three languages. The elder of the late King Alfonso's two living sons, he gave up his rights to the Spanish throne 16 years ago in favor of his healthy younger brother Juan, and set off in pursuit of the happiness that has traditionally eluded his hemophilic Bourbon family...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...
Snort from Segovia. The lute wasn't easy to learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...
...Segovia, the plump little Caudillo told 3,000 lean Spaniards that, just by looking at them, he could see they were "really short of nourishment." He blustered: "It is the fault of outside nations which deny us many things." Franco's solution: "If we can't progress looking outward, then we'll progress looking inward...
...Andres Segovia: Music of Albeniz and Granados (Decca, 6 sides). Segovia's fastidious reading of two Spanish composers-on a guitar as sensitive as a harp -makes this the collector's album of the month. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...