Word: segovia
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...instrument maker, "is yours. Take it with you through the world, and may your labors be fruitful." That was in Madrid in 1912, when the guitarist was young. Since then he has wandered the globe, playing with unparalleled passion and beauty. Last week, a vigorous 65, Andrés Segovia was celebrating his 50th season of concertizing. In Manhattan's Town Hall he demonstrated again the magic that he brings to the guitar, an instrument that, before Segovia's coming, was thought to be fit mostly for gypsies. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Stravinsky once...
...Segovia audience is usually distinguished by its youth and its air of spellbound intensity. Last week, as usual. Segovia played pieces by early, little-known composers, as well as such familiar masters as Bach and Scarlatti, then offered several contemporary works. His six-stringed instrument sounded at times with the shimmer of the harpsichord, at times with the dryly plaintive quality of the lute. Throughout, the instrument's miniature sounds were punctuated with moments of deep, suspenseful silence...
Bream himself turns out to be an exceedingly serious and intense young man. He has a near-flawless technique and a fine rhythmic sense. He elicits from his lute a wide variety of timbres and articulations, and phrases carefully--virtues he shares with Segovia, his teacher. Originally a pianist, he now divides his time between the lute and the guitar. It is only a shame that such a splendid artist cannot devote his full time to each...
...Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo's Fantasia para Gentilhombre, performed by the San Francisco Symphony under Spanish Conductor Enrique Jordá, with famed Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia as soloist. Said blind Joaquin Rodrigo, 55, Spain's No. 1 contemporary composer: "I was afraid to compose a work for so great a guitarist." Replied Segovia: "I was afraid to perform it." After the low Spanish bows were over, soloist and orchestra set to work, unveiled an appealing, fastidious, slightly melancholy piece whose dance rhythms gave Segovia's guitar a chance to enthrall the audience...
...contrast to the strolling guitar players who frequented the Capriccio, Bach fugues and fifteenth century canciones provide background music at the Mozart. "I much prefer to listen to Schweitzer play Bach than have someone strumming in here. Besides I don't like the guitar much--except for Segovia. I also try to discourage the exhibitionist tendency so often found in today's coffee houses, and I think it is very well discouraged here...