Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANDRES SEGOVIA: FIVE CENTURIES OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (MCA Classics). The reviver and master of the instrument as you have never heard him before. Twenty-six digitally reissued performances, dating from 1952 to 1968, drawn from the works of ten Spanish composers...
...ANDRES SEGOVIA: FIVE CENTURIES OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (MCA Classics). The master as you have never before heard him: 26 digitally reissued performances, from 1952 to 1968, drawn from the works of ten Spanish composers...
BLACK AND BLUE Conceived by Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli...
...showcase for remarkable performers and the visual panache of its creators, Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Tango Argentino, Flamenco Puro), this is gorgeous and joyous entertainment. And in its reverence for veteran talents, the kind who have bounced from headlining to working as kitchen help and back again, the show is faithful to the folkloric traditions of tap, jazz and blues...
Behind the bland, avuncular exterior, Segovia was a man of strong feelings. The electric guitar, of course, was anathema, and he denounced rock music as a "strange, terrible and dangerous disease." He often compared the guitar to a woman and boasted of his fidelity, yet he married three times. Nor was he so self-effacing as his calm demeanor and, late in life, his sometimes indifferent performances suggested. Given the guitar's limited repertoire, Segovia felt no compunction about arranging and reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours...