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OSCAR GHIGLIA: GUITAR MUSIC OF FOUR CENTURIES (Angel). An anointed disciple of Andres Segovia ("Most meritorious a young Master"), the 28-year-old Italian guitarist goes from Frescobaldi and Dowland up to Villa-Lobos with brief musical sketches that contrast as widely in mood as in century. His forte seems to be the modern works by the Mexican Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, in which he gives an almost exolosive account...
...pastor got into the travel business almost by divine comedy. Eager to make a tour of Spain in 1949 but too poor to swing it, Krogager signed up 70 Jutlanders for the trip, went along, with expenses paid, as their guide. In Segovia, Krogager forgot the name of an inn where the group had contracted to eat dinner. He took the travelers to another place-only to be confronted at meal's end by the irate owner of the scheduled restaurant, who demanded payment for the uneaten meal. In the red by $150 as a result, Krogager decided...
...Torquemada, Howard Fast has reached back 500 years to compose a bitter fictional parable about one of the most detested figures in the history of man or of man's religion-the Dominican Friar Thomas de Torquemada, Prior of Segovia and Grand Inquisitor of Spain. Or so it seems. A parable illuminates a complexity with a single truth. Fast's is a terrible, simple tale which raises more complex questions than it provides simple answers...
Friar Thomas and his boyhood friend Don Alvero de Rafel ride from Segovia to Seville at the summons of Ferdinand and Isabella. Each man is consulted about Columbus' projected expedition west to the Indies. Don Alvero, a knight who has fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
...could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend to the torture. Alvero's own wife repudiates him as a Jew, and while he is recovering from torture, his daughter is immolated in a fire that burns the ancient synagogue of Segovia. Thomas gives Alvero his freedom in exchange for the girl's sacrifice...