Word: tarrega
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...think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River liner. Worse, a braking train in a tunnel in this town can sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons he got his back up about it was that the city had the gall to hit him with an environmental charge: making unnecessary noise...
...guitar and sing: "To play the guitar/ You need no 'science'/ Only a strong arm/ And perseverance." Segovia took this instruction to heart; aside from a few lessons from a strolling flamenco player, he was self-taught. His tastes, though, were sophisticated: Spanish music by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, baroque music by Bach and Purcell and works by such contemporaries as Benjamin Britten and Heitor Villa- Lobos, many of which were written especially...
Works of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Amold, Bach, Milan, and Tarrega--Catherine Lawlor, piano; Barbara Knapp, oboe; Christine Tessler, piano' and Brian Holland, guitar; New School of Music, 60 Aberdeen Ave., Cambridge...
...stranger to the concert hall; along with Brothers Celin and Pepe, Angel has been appearing with Papa Celedonio Romero's family quartet since he was six. Angel's Spanish guitar music vibrates with the heroic digital work and high coloration associated with the repertory. He peels off Tarrega's Chopinesque Estudio Brillante in a fiery burst of romanticism. He can be soft-spoken when the music calls for it: his Scarlatti is a model of baroque clarity and balance...
JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally-his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra...