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[LUTE] Re: Respighi

Eugene C. Braig IV
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:50:10 -0700

At 02:44 PM 9/26/2008, howard posner wrote:

>On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Jeffrey Noonan wrote:
>
> > Segovia was merely trying to keep up with the other international
> > virtuosi of the day (Landowska, among others ), who were unearthing
> > and performing old, obscure masterpieces--sometimes actual
> > historical pieces, sometimes new compositions. I'm not entirely
> > sure Segovia every acknowledged the hoax while Ponce was still alive.
>
>Segovia had a way of making old masterpieces sound obscure.

Very nice!

Eugene 



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