I hope Segovia saw that his work was good, and rested on the 6th day.....
RT
On 12/15/2013 1:52 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
Sir,
Respectfully I must remind you that Segovia's early 20th Century work made the
classical guitar and related plucked instruments the popular things that they
have become today. We all owe him reverence for that. Andres Segovia has been
at rest for twenty six years. Please help to make that rest peaceful.
Chris Barker
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Tobiah
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bream Collection... I just noticed
On 12/14/2013 5:45 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
Re: Gary's comments on Segovia... If it were not for Segovia's
efforts, the guitar, lute, and kindred instruments would not occupy
the places they have today. I was at a dinner put on by the old
Dallas Classical Guitar society almost a decade ago when the young
guitarist seated to my left referred to Andres Segovia "as just an
uninformed old man with poor performance practice who could be only be
heard on a bunch of scratchy LP"s. I took my first guitar lessons in
1958. We all considered Andres Segovia a saint. And now, much older
and wiser, are still of the same opinion, and we hold his critics in
great disdain.
Are you referring to what his contributions to, and passion for the music did
for its advancement? I know little of that - only what I see on YouTube of his
performances. Allowing for possibly lesser recording engineering capability at
the time, I find his tone anemic, his rhythm unmusically erratic, and his
redeemable heart and passion as though it may be, fails to reach my heart
through my admittedly unpolished ear.
*Cringes and braces for the inevitable and surgically incisive dissection of
his point of view*
Tobiah
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