What began in 1993 as a one-time festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of revered Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, has become an example of the genre-spanning power of classical ...
Andres Segovia, the beloved Spanish guitarist universally credited with bringing the guitar to the forefront of the concert world, died Tuesday in Madrid of heart failure. In his 94 years, the maestro ...
Andres Segovia popularized the classical guitar. Julian Bream took it to the next level. Bream, who died Aug. 14 at the age of 87 in his native England, stepped into a guitar world in which everything ...
It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. By Allan Kozinn Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar ...
Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...