Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain last week, all musical roads led to Granada. There, to the historic shadows of the old Moorish Alhambra, came a crowd of festival fans and such internationally famed performers as Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. For Granada, it was the windup of a fortnight of music and dance, the second in two years, which the city fondly hopes will become an annual affair eventually rivaling Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh...
With a sound sense of drama, the festival managers arranged to have all performances held in the patios of the Alhambra. Afternoon events began in daylight and ended in evening shadows; after dark, discreetly situated floodlights illumined the cypresses and medieval arches...
...Alhambra, Calif...
...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
Tight Fit. As a youth, Escher knocked about Europe making prints that were ordinary enough to be used for tourist ads. The abstract mosaics of Spain's Alhambra changed his bent. Fascinated by the mosaics' flat, tight geometry, he set himself the task of making equally tight, equally geometrical and yet representational pictures. That meant fitting recognizable shapes together as neatly as tiles and alternating them to create flat patterns. Compared to some of the problems he has since set himself, it was easy...