Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small army of Manhattan's Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her numerous assistants, a coppery, curly-haired Spaniard who strummed a guitar. When he twanged and thrummed at the climaxes of a malagueña or a bulenia, the little group of strum-pots practically rose up and cried "Ole!" The man they were applauding was Sabicas, most famous of present day flamenco guitar players...
Flamenco v. Classical. When a Spaniard speaks of flamenco music, he means a kind of inspired strumming and wailing, rich in Moorish overtones, which bears about the same relation to the comparatively sedate folk music of Spain that New Orleans jive does to the prim fiddling of U.S. hillbillies. Few performers are equally good at both flamenco and "classical" music...
...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
...Spanish guitar also has an Andre Kostelanetz. He is Vicente Gomez, a slick-haired, 40-year-old Spaniard who combines the intricate technique of the classical guitar player with a serviceable flair for flamenco improvisation. Like most artists who play both ends against the middle, Gomez has been a great financial success. Drafted last year, he now makes $50 a month at Camp Shanks...
...president of the potent International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Argentina had ordered suspension for 24 hours of I.T. & T.'s All America Cables for the crime of transmitting a cable from Mexico to Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (the cable protested the deportation of an anti-Franco Spaniard to presumed death in Spain...