LOS ROMEROS: ROYAL FAMILY OF THE SPANISH GUITAR
Maria von Trapp and her troupe, immortalised by Rodgers and Hammerstein in The Sound of Music, were not the only musical family to flee Fascism before winning fame in the United States and beyond.
Nineteen years after the von Trapps first glimpsed the towers of Manhattan one September morning in 1938, a family of Spanish guitarists arrived at the self-same place from Franco's Spain.
Their stories were not dissimilar.
