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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

266.0. "El Maestro" by RHETT::MCABEE (zzzzzzzzzz...) Wed Jun 03 1987 15:01

    I just got a brief note over the net saying that Andres Segovia
    has died.  Don't have any details.  He must have been close to 95.
    
    What can you say?  This was the most important guitarist of the
    century.
    
    Bob
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266.1sniff...BPOV10::LEAHYThu Jun 04 1987 16:168
    I caught him in Worcester a few years back, and all I can say is
    that if there was ever a show which could be indelibly marked in
    my memory by virtue of its sheer beauty and demonstration of mastery,
    that was the one.  I'm sure he will be sadly missed by all.  I wonder
    if they'll keep making "segovia" classical strings?
    
    Jon (BPOV02::NELSON)
    
266.294 yrs. oldMILVAX::EATONThu Jun 04 1987 16:591
    I heard about it on WBCN, and they said he was 94.
266.3JAWS::COTEWhat's wrong with this picture?Thu Jun 04 1987 20:1612
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    Mechanic's Hall, right? I was there. Remarkable. Segovia had to
    be helped out to his chair and given his guitar. At that point
    both hands 'came alive' and the concert started.
    
    When he was done, his guitar was removed and he was helped off
    the stage....
    
    Makes ya wanna cry...
    
    Edd
266.4Andre The GiantBPOV10::LEAHYFri Jun 05 1987 13:547
    yeah... I hung around for about a half an hour and finally did get
    his autograph, just before they decided that he couldn't handle
    any more and helped away from the crowd.  His signature was barely
    recognizeable (but I guess that's true of most spaniards...) :->
    
    Jon (BPOV02::NELSON)
    
266.5PVAX::CONROYFri Jun 05 1987 15:306
    
    Richard Dyer (music critic for the Boston Globe) had a nice article
    in yesterdays paper. He was practicing for 4 to 5 hours a day
    right up to the end. His playing in concert fell off a bit as
    he got older but there was never any mistaking his playing or
    that great tone.
266.6Guitarists are all his childrenNEXUS::DICKERSONFri Jun 05 1987 16:3114
    Not only did the maestro invent the guitar as a concert instrument,
    he was a primary force in the development and acceptance of nylon
    strings.  During his exile from Spain during the Spanish Civil War
    and WWII, he was plagued by the difficulty in getting good gut strings
    ( which were, understandably, difficult to get out of Germany ).
    He met a guy named Augustine.  This guy had some new-fangled 
    synthetic strings.  After some initial doubts ( the first few tries
    at nylon strings apparently sounded awful! ) Segovia became an 
    enthusiatic collaborator.  The rest, as they say, is history.  The
    next time you slap a new set of Augustine "blues" on your classical
    axe, say a quit thank you to THE MAN.
    
    						Doug Dickerson...
    
266.7BMT::COMAROWFri Jun 05 1987 22:292
    I saw Segovia in a little tiny concert all in Bristol, England in
    1977.