Archive for October, 2010
Evan Hirschelman
I met Evan at a recital recently, and Scott Tennant had said he was someone I should know, so I went home and looked him up online. Needless to say, I was blown away. Check him out at http://www.theguitarist.net.
Matt Hinsley, the director of the Austin Classical Guitar Society, is kind of a whirlwind of advocacy for supporting guitar education in our public schools. He and the ACGS started in Austin and have now gone statewide and are beginning to go national. After meeting him at GFA in Austin this year I knew I wanted to hear more, so we arranged to talk on the phone about the future of guitar education and how to raise money and awareness in less than perfect economic times. Here’s the beginning of our conversation (the rest will be available as an article on the GSI site later this week):.
In May 1963, Voormann Klaus, a German of 25 fond of music and photography, was in Madrid, stopping in his journey back to Hamburg, where he lived.
He had spent several holidays in the family home that his parents owned in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife) together with a German friend, Astrid Kirchherr, and three musicians from Liverpool that he had met 3 years earlier, in Hamburg. They were Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Voormann Klaus decided to buy a Spanish guitar. Therefore he went into the Ramírez Guitar shop located in Concepción Jerónima, 2.
Here’s part 4 of our interview with French luthier,Dominique Field, picking up where we had left off as Field tells us about what Bouchet had to say about his investigations into building the guitar with the sound he wanted.
Here’s one great Brazilian playing the music of another great Brazilian. Paulo Bellinati playing Tom Jobim’s ‘Surfboard.’
As long as we’re on the subject of flamenco fusion…
Here are some pix of the new guitars Tobias Berg is building for us. Look for them some time in November.
Our friend Scott Morris has a new website for his guitar trio Line Forms Hear. Check them out at www.lineformshear.com.
The NPR Tiny Desk series has some really cool interviews with all sorts of musicians, including David Russell and Jason Vieaux, but mostly non-classical musicians. Pretty cool to see David Russell at ease and up close.
Here’s a very young flamenco dancer who’s clearly doing in dance what the musicians have been doing for decades – borrowing a lot from Latin dance and Argentine tango to create something new. I’ll admit that while I’m no purist, I might not have given Selene Muñoz a first look if I’d just read a description like that, so I’m glad I saw the video first. Don’t worry – her flamenco chops are definitely there..
