Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guitar, there is Segovia; for the cello, Casals; and for the tenor saxophone, there was Coleman Hawkins. Before him, the instrument was a straw among the winds, used only for nasal accents in the background of jazz bands. "Bean," as Hawkins' friends called him, transformed it into an expressive solo voice that could breathe lyrical long tones on ballads or erupt into flights of dazzling arpeggios. In a sense, it could be said that he created the tenor sax, and players from Ben Webster to Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane have acknowledged their debt to his inspiration and style...
Fresh Air. But the music world will not let him. At 34, Bream is in demand throughout Europe and America as the undisputed successor to the grand master of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia, and as a lutanist already beyond comparison. Without sacrificing stylistic elegance, he draws from both instruments the rustic grace and fresh-air feeling of the English countryside, redeeming them from sentimentality as well as musicological pedantry. To make up for the narrow dynamic range of the guitar, he achieves dramatic effects with an extraordinary variety of tonal colors. Subtle, jazzlike rhythms, throbbing chords, silvery lines, harplike...
Husky, easygoing, and seemingly unperturbed by the fact that he has been blind ever since early childhood, Watson, 44, is a regular country-music Segovia. His casual, clean-cut virtuosity on the "flattop" (nonelectric) guitar is little less than awesome as he drives through such standards as Black Mountain Rag and Nashville Blues. His voice curls reedily and winsomely around Matty Groves, reminding some of the young Burl Ives. The only difference: Watson sings on pitch...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid...
OSCAR GHIGLIA: GUITAR MUSIC OF FOUR CENTURIES (Angel). An anointed disciple of Andres Segovia ("Most meritorious a young Master"), the 28-year-old Italian guitarist goes from Frescobaldi and Dowland up to Villa-Lobos with brief musical sketches that contrast as widely in mood as in century. His forte seems to be the modern works by the Mexican Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, in which he gives an almost exolosive account...