Today, I should like to show you a video, where you can watch Andres Segovia (the epitome of the Spanish Classical Guitar) playing guitar, as the best reason --as a model for new guitarists-- to revive the Spanish Classical Guitar. If you want to watch this video, please click on the link below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/te-acuerdas/acuerdas-cencia-guitarra/1427238/
Andres Segovia (Guitarist): “To play guitar, has no cencia (science), but juerza (force) on the arm ..., remaining ....”
Voice in off: “Almost centenary, Andres Segovia remembered this ditty, who learned when he was a child and which led him to play guitar ........ By then, he had already stepped on stages around the world and had rescued from oblivion the Classical Guitar ... the first major tasks, which was imposed as an artist himself”
Andres Segovia: “The second one: create a extra-guitar playing repertoire; ie, composed by great symphonic musicians”
Voice in off: “So, thanks to his tenacity, composers such as Manuel de Falla and Joaquin Rodrigo wrote for guitar ..... And the last of his great endeavors: to introduce the guitar at the Conservatory ......., as he did in these historic sessions, in Santiago de Compostela”
Jose Luis Rodrigo (Teacher of Guitar at the Conservatory of Madrid): “That was in the year 65. He thought, as a genius that he was, --in the best sense of the word--, they all had their same conditions ... and it is not, not everyone has the same conditions…”
Voice in off: “We see Jose Luis Rodrigo, those years, learning from the Master………and, today, we meet him, at the Conservatory of Madrid, where he teaches young talent, continuing the work of Andres Segovia”
Jose Luis Rodrigo: “It is that to teach a student so……it is a pleasure ....”
Voice in off: “It was the legacy of Andres Segovia, a vital and musical impulse, that encouraged figures like Narciso Yepes or Gabriel Estarellas”
Paulino Bernabé (A carpenter): “I am here seeing the hardness of the cover…”
Voice in off: “In the studio of his friend, Paulino Bernabé, the guitarist, Ricardo Gallén, is working to maintain the high level of Spanish classical guitar; also to return the boom, it had with Andrés Segovia”
Ricardo Gallén (Guitarist):” The guitar is not such a popular instrument, today; It is like something a bit exotic, that also, in that time, it was so, and perhaps that was successful; but already today, exoticism ... there are other things .....”
Voice in off: “There are rooms, there are repertoires and performers; but all of them admit that the classical guitar, today, lacks the hook, that it took, to reach the big public”
Ricardo Gallén: “I see a Flamenco concert .... and the flamingos are having a great time, when they are playing ... A Rock concert ... and they are having a great time .... I see a concert of classical musicians ... and they are suffering ... and they are suffering, because they want to never fail, because they want to be perfect”
Carlos Ruscalleda (Voice in off): “It may be too much academic rigor or maybe a figure, such as Andres Segovia, able to break the mold .... The truth is that, 25 years, after his death, the Master follows being essential.
Well, I hope that you have liked this video.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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