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...adopted daughter, romantically re-christened Carmen, grew tall, graceful and dignified. José never let her suspect that she was not his real daughter. In 1949, when Carmen was working in a foundry in Valencia, she got an offer of marriage. Her suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young...
...days, the Trigos, established in a new and fashionable apartment, were the toast of Valencia. Then, like a chill wind, came the breath of disillusion...
...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
Jose Iturbi, at 55, is a pianist who is regarded by a vast public as a saint of the keyboard, by critics as a fallen angel. Twenty-two years ago, when Valencia-born Jose made his U.S. debut, there were hardly enough superlatives to fit his playing. But last March, after his first Carnegie Hall recital in six years, the same judges shook their saddened heads, damned him as a perfunctory performer. They conceded that Iturbi still had his nimble technique, delicate shadings and tone colors. But, as the Herald Tribune's Jerome D. Bohm put it, that made...
Jose himself points out that his career in show business began long before Hollywood-in Valencia, at the age of seven. A child prodigy, he got the job of beating out tunes in the local nickelodeon to help support his family. "From the beginning, music meant money to me-it was very serious...