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The Beautiful Ana Vidovic

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I'm all psyched. I'm going to see her next Saturday in concert at the Long Island Guitar Festival at C.W. Post College. Sort of a birthday present to myself. It'll be in the recital hall that seats less then 500, so it should be great. This is the first time she has appeared so close to my home. Ana is one of the best classical guitarists in the world. She started giving concerts at age eleven. She's thirty now. What a talent wrapped in such a beautiful package. :smile:

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She is really outstanding! If I only hear the music I would swear I was listening to Segovia!
 
Amazing the amount of notes without allot of fret work.

Thanks dude, that was nice!
 
basil, im willing to be posted behind her left hand ready to nible away any fingernail growth she may have experienced between performances! :devilgrin:
 
Nice sounds to start the weekend........
 
Segovia is darn good but never looked like that!
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I went to a Segovia concert in '58 or '59, and you are right, he never looked like that! Not on his best day.
 
bgbassplyr, years ago i watched a documentary on how segovia choose his students, among all the talented preselected young people in an audition, some were technically outstanding playing instruments costing several thousands of dollars, while others with much lesser guitars and not as technically proficient were chosen instead, he explained that he could teach a student to be a technician but could not teach one how to play with thier soul, imho, this young laddy posseses both attributes.
 
I've had the privilege of seeing Segovia on two occasions, both when he was getting up in years. The first time was in the mid '70s, and he still had the technique and feeling. The last time I saw him, I believe in 1980, he was about 87 years old. Many of the pieces he tried to play were just too technically difficult for him at that point in his life. It was almost painful to listen to. There were however, a lot of simpler pieces that he played that he turned into pure magic. There was no reason for him at that time to try and tackle those difficult pieces. We all knew that he wrote the book on that stuff. He had nothing to prove. He lifted the lowly guitar to great heights, and every classical guitarist since owes him a debt of gratitude. We will always be the greatest because of this.
 
martx5, you are one lucky sunimagung, my grandfather from madrid had the advantage of being born into a prominent military and political family affording him the oppertunity of seeing and meeting segovia on a great number of occations puplicly and personally,"poppy" would recount many of the events in great detail, id give a year of my life to have been there for one performance, he also knew jango reinhartd, and stephane grappelli.
 
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... he also knew jango reinhartd, and stephane grappelli.
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"Poppy" sure knew some of the great ones. It would have been nice to hear some of those stories.

Django and Stephane. I've got several CDs by these guys. They are great. Here's a neat video of them along with Django's brothers on rhythm guitars. Notice how well Django plays with only two fingers. He burned his hand in a caravan fire and literally had to relearn how to play the guitar with limited use of his fingers. Enjoy...

Edit: Reinhardt died at the age of 43 from a brain hemmorage, but Grappelli kept playing 'til almost the end at age 89.

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Here's a video of Grappelli in 1991, at the age of 83...He still had it.

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martx5, ive seen these before and they are great, thanks, like guitars? this is me playing "wes montgomerys" gibson l-5 guitar at mandolin brothers guitar shop on staten island n.y. after they rebuild it, i believe george benson bought it, big bucks!
 

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Anthony, I've been into guitars since my high school days. Played a Silvertone (Sears) electric back then. After I got out of the army in 1970, I started playing classical guitar and wound up with a Kohno. My teacher at the time was getting into building guitars, so I built one along side of him while we both tried to learn how to do it. Mine turned out pretty good. It actually has a better sound then the Kohno, but it lacks the Kohno's volume and ease of playing. My buddy (Pat Caruso) is still building and has produced some great instruments. He built an arch lute and baroque guitar for Jerry Willard. When you open the site, the two instruments that Jerry is holding are his. Inside the site in the gallery section are more pictures of Pat's instruments.

Unfortunately, I can't play anymore as I have dupuytren's contracture of my left hand. It doesn't affect me for most everyday stuff, but makes playing all but impossible. Maybe I should try out the Django technique...
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martx-5, wow! thats some great stuff, if you look closely at my pointer finger left hand you can see i have a shinny object on it, thats an aluminum brace/cover i made to protect my rebroken broken finger, when i was a kid while with my mom entering macys dept. store i got it broken when i reached out from my stroller to grab a closing glass door, cant bend the tip, id complain to my guitar teacher "link chamberland" now passed away,(do look him up) that i was having a hard time fingering some chords he would just say "remember jango" the reason i was at mandolin brothers that day is that a customer brought me a 1965 epiphone howard roberts that hed completely stapped of the head stock and wanted me to fix it, when i finished the repair we brought it to mandolin brothers for an appraisal, it was inspected by 3 of thier expert employees and was totally undetectable, months there after the customer called me a said hed sold it for $4400.00. forgot to mention i went over to my buddys last night to glom a set of nylon strings and played his "monwell reyes" sweeeeet!
 
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like guitars? !
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Good, buy my Joe Pass for $400. About 16-17 years old and in excellent shape. Not one of the new crappy ones. Yeah, yeah, I know, not an l-5.
 
Just got back from an awesome show! A group called The Bills (from the west coast of Canada, and quite literally all over the place really), the best stand-up bass I've ever seen in my life from Scott White, but the whole band is so talented but really knows how to play together as a team and have lots of fun... It was one night I wish I had brought my camera - there would have been so many sweet photo opportunities! :cryin: - but the venue was a small folk music club that doesn't usually allow photography... And the encore was just simply a big jam session, too cool... Someone told me on the way out that they are all symphony-trained musicians, but in this case playing roots music

Anyway... https://www.thebills.ca/

One video anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4WW3uRzKrY It doesn't do them justice, but if they ever come your way, GO!
 
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