Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...