Even when Segovia DID have a pulse, he had this really annoying habit of just
pausing on random notes just because the guitar sounded pretty good on that
note. I called it the Segovia fermata. It did not cause me to move to the
lute directly-I moved to the Bream guitar first.
A. John Mardinly,
John,
Actually, what Segovia did rhythmically was quite acceptable within the
late Romantic performance practice aesthetic. Llobet does pretty much
the same thing. This is not confined to guitar: pianists like Cortot
and vocalists like Patti and Melba -most performers, in fact-
