I've heard that Segovia's response to Julian Bream's success was, "An
Englishman playing guitar is an abomination," although I don't think
that constitutes bullying, just the crankiness of an extremely
opinionated man whose opinions were not always correct. Bream later
dedicated an entire album in homage to Segovia. I saw Segovia in concert
five times and each performance was magnificent. It was his recordings
that drew me to the guitar. It was Bream who introduced me to the lute.
On Dec 14, 2013, at 3:44 AM, gary <magg...@sonic.net> wrote:
Recently, a message was posted referring to Andres Segovia as a
"bully". I think that's a little harsh, I know it's become popular to
bash Segovia and that he had a huge ego, but I don't recall him
actually bullying anyone into agreeing with his views.
There were stories about him rigging competitions in favor of his
chosen disciples and otherwise throwing his weight around, but it
would be hard to confirm things like that, because people (other than
Michael Chapdelaine, I suppose) don't like to admit to being bullied,
and Segovia's cult of personality was such that it wasn't in the
interest of anyone in the classical guitar community to criticize him
openly.
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