Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

Ferdinand Rebay’s Complete Music for Violin & Guitar

By Brilliant Classics It was Jakob Ortner, one of the composer’s colleagues at the academy in Vienna, who Source

Vera Danilina – Classical Guitar Concert

Vera Danilina is a rising star in the classical guitar world with incredible musicality and technical abilities. She has paid a visit to the Siccas Guitars Studio to perform a heart-touching program with works by J. S. Bach, Fernando Sor, Antonio Jose, Nikita Koshkin, Johann Kasper Mertz, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and W.A. Mozart. Have a good […]

Music for Soprano & Guitar by Female Composers

In order to recreate the musical atmosphere of a nineteenth-century salon, this recording will focus on female composers only. Presented are works the famous opera diva Pauline Viardot (1821-1919), the equally famous, even legendary Maria Malibrán (1808-1836, the younger sister of Pauline Viardot), Isabella Colbrán (1785-1845), Pauline Duchambge (1778-1858), Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805-1847) and Clara Wieck-Schumann […]

Peaceful Spanish Guitar

This edition consists of the best pieces from Spanish composers. Music written or transcribed for guitar by composers such as Tárrega, Albéniz, Sainz de la Maza, Sanz and Mompou. Source

Air Guitar World Championship 2022 in Finland

The world’s best faux guitarists gathered in Oulu, Finland on Friday for the World Air Guitar Championships. The Air Guitar World Championship was first held in 1996 as part of the Oulu August Festival. The declared aim of this unusual competition is to “promote world peace”. According to the organisers, air guitar is an ideal […]

Good News: Chemotherapy drugs by drone and the unlikely return of a rockstar’s guitar after 45 years

Your weekly dose of #GoodNews is fresh out of the oven with VR replicating the neurological effects of exercise, chemo drugs that descend from the skies, and more. Source

English Guitar Music of the 20th Century

From Brilliant Classics These pieces for solo guitar by Scott, Berkeley, Britten and Walton have left a permanent mark on the guitaristic landscape, expanding it to territory then unfamiliar in the prevailing aesthetic canon of Segovia. If the 20th century was the golden age in which the guitar repertoire rose to the level of that […]

Julia Trintschuk Plays Classical Guitar

Julia Trintschuk is a German who began learning guitar at the age of 4 with her father and began performing professionally at the age of 16. (Bio) Link Share now! Source

Classical Guitar Music: Bach, Mozart and Hayden

I wanted to showcase this musician partly for his virtuosic ability and partly for his unique approach to playing guitar. After having studied classical guitar for 4 or 5 years on my own and academically and then switching my focus to cello, I come across Paul Galbraith. I tried this approach a little and decided […]

Francisco Tárrega – Father of the Classical Guitar

Bio by Robert Cummings Francisco Tárrega was an important Spanish composer whose music and style of guitar playing became strongly influential in the twentieth century. He was central to reviving the guitar as a solo instrument in recital and concerts. Among his most popular compositions are Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Danza mora. He wrote […]

Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl

WEIMAR, Germany (JTA) — What if the Yiddish-speaking poets and songwriters had electric guitars and amps in the shtetl? That’s the question Sasha Lurje and her Forshpil bandmates asked themselves a decade ago in Latvia when they began their shift from traditional klezmer music to psychedelic rock. “When people see a Jewish or Yiddish band, […]

What They Want You to Fear vs The Real Threats That We Face

The uniting global culture of the 21st Century does have risks that it needs to address as it moves into a new era that can finally be classed as a civilized society. Yet, any report that identifies the threats to our species needs to be holistic and progressive in its approach; otherwise it is just […]

Gibson Guitar raid part of government effort to extinguish American workforce, outsource remaining jobs to foreign countries

Ethan A. HuffNatural News Sept 6, 2011 As a followup to our report about the US government’s recent illegal raid of Gibson Guitars Corp., a major US based manufacturer of musical instruments (http://www.naturalnews.com/033454_G…), Gibson’s CEO Henry Juszkiewicz has openly announced that the US government actually advised him in a pleading that if he simply were […]

Gibson Guitar CEO Says Feds Told Him Problems Would ‘Go Away’ if Labor Outsourced to Madagascar

  Jonathon M. SeidlThe Blaze September 1, 2011 The tale of the Gibson guitar raid — the one focused on the legendary guitar maker’s alleged importation and use of illegal wood — has taken an odd turn. Now CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is claiming the Feds told him that some of his problems “would go away” […]

Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Armed Federal Raid

  Gibson.com August 29, 2011 Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., has responded to the August 24 raid of Gibson facilities in Nashville and Memphis by the Federal Government. In a press release, Juszkiewicz said: “Gibson is innocent and will fight to protect its rights. Gibson has complied with foreign laws and […]

Federal gestapo illegally raid Gibson Guitar factories, arbitrarily confiscate millions of dollars worth of wood used to make instruments

Ethan A. HuffNatural News Monday, August 29, 2011 (NaturalNews) Due process under the law and assumed innocence before being proven guilty are two concepts that are apparently no longer applicable in the United States of America, at least as far as the federal government is concerned. For the second time in two years, armed federal […]

Feds raid Gibson guitar factory over protected wood

  Eric FeltenWall Street Journal August 26, 2011 Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing […]

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