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15-45 Brasil Guitar Duo Interview and more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 59:42

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Brasil Guitar Duo member Douglas Lora and music by Kapsberger, Bach, Elmer Bernstein, and Jerry Dadap’s arrangement of a traditional Appalachian Hymn tune

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 11, 2015

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Brasil Guitar Duo Interview, Elmer Bernstein Concerto

Program ID#  15-D65-00045

Title: 15-45 Brasil Guitar Duo Interview, Elmer Bernstein Concerto

Feed date and time: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 1300 ET

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Kapsberger: Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata    Rolf Lislevand, theorbo

                                                    (Astree 8515)                                                   

 

  Interview: Douglas Lora, of Brasil Guitar Duo: “Talking about guitar duos, there’s a big tradition of guitar duos in Brasil …  … we play in duo because of them.”

 

  Bach: Flute Sonata in gm          Marina Piccinini, flute

                                                     Brasil Guitar Duo

                                                      (Avie 2196)

 

  Elmer Bernstein: Guitar Concerto    Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                                          London Symphony Orchestra

                                                          Elmer Bernstein, conductor

                                                           (EMI/Angel 7243-5-56859)

 

    Traditional: Wondrous Love         Jerry Dadap, Jr., guitar

                                                          (Dadap Records 1)

 

  Kapsberger: Four PiecesToccata Seconda Arpeggiata    Rolf Lislevand, theorbo

                                                   (Astree 8515)                                                  

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Brasil Guitar Duo member Douglas Lora and music by Kapsberger, Bach, Elmer Bernstein, and Jerry Dadap’s arrangement of a traditional Appalachian Hymn tune.

 

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BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2016, CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! WILL BE DISTRIBUTED VIA PRX.ORG

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

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15-46 Vivaldi, Falla, Jorge Morel, Yehezkel Braun

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 59:41

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features new music by Duo Amaral (Vivaldi), Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s Concierto Rapsodico, a cello/guitar duo arrangement of songs by de Falla, and a large-scale chamber work for mandolin, guitar, and harpsichord by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: Nonember 17, 2015

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  15-46 Vivaldi, Falla, Jorge Morel, Yehezkel Braun

Program ID#  15-D65-00046

Title: 15-46 Vivaldi, Falla, Morel, Braun

Feed date and time: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 1300 ET

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Vivaldi: L’estro Armonico Concerto #9 RV230    Duo Amaral

                                                                   (Duo Amaral 84501-98598)

 

  Jorge Morel: Concierto Rapsodico       Krzysztof Pelech, guitar

                                                               Capella Bydgostiensis

                                                              Michel Nesterowicz, conductor

                                                                   (Luthier Music 2881-61413-27)

 

  Manuel de Falla: Tonadillas in Ancient Style   Anne Gastinel, cello

                                                                        Pablo Marquez, guitar

                                                                  (Naïve Records 5182)

                                                  

    Yehezkel Braun: Music for Plucked Strings  Three Plucked Strings

                                                                (Three Plucked Strings 2002)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features new music by Duo Amaral (Vivaldi), Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s Concierto Rapsodico, a cello/guitar duo arrangement of songs by de Falla, and a large-scale chamber work for mandolin, guitar, and harpsichord by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun.

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16-01 Dr. Mariam Renno-Boccali Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s episode of CGA! features an interview with French international guitar competition prize winner and medical doctor Mariam Renno-Boccali, who discusses her life in music and medicine, and her association Concert for Cancer, which promotes music in hospitals.

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FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 5, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  16-01 Dr. Mariam Renno-Boccali Interview

Program ID#  16-01

Title: 16-01 Dr. Mariam Renno-Boccali Interview

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Emilio Pujol: Seguidilla                           Mariam Renno-Boccali, guitar

                                                                   (GS 2003)

 

  Interview: Mariam Renno-Boccali: “Oh, twenty years, medical doctor…  … two days a week as a doctor now.”

 

  Weiss: Badinage                                 Mariam Renno-Boccali, guitar

                                                                 (GS 2003)

 

  Maximo Diego Pujol: Luminosa Buenos Aires   Giampolo Bandini, guitar

                                                                            Caesare Chiacchiaretta, bandoneon

                                                                             I Musici di Parma

 

Interview: Mariam Renno-Boccali: “It’s a beautiful adventure…   … when there is a need, a medical device, breast prosthesis, the next concert is for a children’s home in Africa, and then I play. I think it’s beautiful to play music for that.”

 

  Rodrigo: Zapateado                               Mariam Renno-Boccali, guitar

                                                                 (GS 2003)

 

  Armand Coeck: Cantorus Angelorum, Fantasia   Wouter Vercruysee, cello

                                                                               Joris D’Haene, Micheline Dumortier, guitars

                                                                 (Auurk 700261984834)

 

Interview: Mariam Renno-Boccali: “I had the chance to go to …  … not only guitar lesson, but lessons for life, too.”

 

  Emilio Pujol: Guajira                                Mariam Renno-Boccali, guitar

                                                                 (GS 2003)

 

  Eddie Healy: 60 Seconds                        Eddie Healy, guitar trio

                                                                 (Eddie Healy 2012)

 

  Interview: Mariam Renno-Boccali:”Thank you for letting me share this moment…  … I’m grateful to be a guitarist.”

                                                  

    Antonio Grande: Tarantella                   Mariam Renno-Boccali, guitar

                                                                 (GS 2003)

 

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features an interview with French international guitar competition prize winner and medical doctor Mariam Renno-Boccali, who discusses her life in music and medicine, and her association Concert for Cancer, which promotes music in hospitals.

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BEGINNING JANUARY 2016, CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! WILL BE DISTRIBUTED VIA PRX.ORG and directly from the producer via the Hightail.com file-sending service, and also via FTP server.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

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Yes! We plan to broadcast CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!. We understand that this is a FREE program and that this edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! may be broadcast an unlimited number of times within 52 weeks of feed date.

 

Station Call Letters____________Frequency______City/Area___________

Day and Time of Broadcast_______________________________________

Repeaters and Translators________________________________________

Contact Person_______________________ Title________________________

Phone____________________________ Fax ________________________

Address______________________________________________________

City/State/Zip Code ____________________________________________

 

Please return the above info to:

 

Tony Morris, producer/host

Classical Guitar Alive!

PO Box 4975

Austin, TX 78765

 

(512) 474-7463 FAX

(512) 657-1400 phone

 

e-mail:  ClassicalGuitarAlive@gmail.com

Web-site:  http://www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

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FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 27, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!    16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

 

Program ID# 16-04

Title: 16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

Feed date and time: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude  Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Interview: Andrew McKenna Lee: “It’s genesis came through an idea … …which is basically how that little piece came about.”

Bach: Prelude in d minor BWV 999  Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                        (NWAM 013)

Lee: Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach: 1.Variation

                                                         Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                           (NWAM 013)

 

   Interview: Benjamin Verdery: “I have fond memories of that… …of course he didn’t quite phrase it like that.”

  CPE Bach: Concerto in A major      Benjamin Verdery, guitar

                                             Laurentian String Quintet

                                               Anthony Newman, harpsichord

                                             (Musical Heritage Society)

 

  Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude & Fugue #1  LA Guitar Quartet

                                              (Delos 3205)

 

    Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Well-Tempered Guitars: Prelude & Fugue #5, Prelude 4                                                                                                  

                                                                                       Brasil Guitar Duo

                                              (Naxos 5.70778)

 

  Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras #1                  Prague Guitar Quartet

                                              (Panton 810993-2131)

 

  Interview: Mark Anthony Cruz: “Sure, yeah, that’s one of my favorite pieces… … to make it a very fun piece.”

Cruz: Bachlava                      Mark Anthony Cruz, guitar

                                             (MAC Publications 50532-08582)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

 

The program begins with a March 2009 interview with guitarist-composer Andrew McKenna Lee, in which he talks about how Bach’s Prelude in d minor for lute, BWV 999, became the inspiration and basis of his own piece, “Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach.”

 

In a 1995 interview, guitarist Benjamin Verdery discusses his arrangement of CPE Bach’s Concerto in A major, and relates an account of CPE Bach speaking about his father JS Bach’s organ playing.

 

The program continues with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s recording of the Prelude & Fugue #1 from Book I of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Inspired by Bach’s monumental work of 24 preludes and fugues in each key, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) composed his own set of 24 preludes and fugues for two guitars, and titled it “The Well-Tempered Guitars.” The work was dedicated to the Presti-Lagoya Duo.

 

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) combined his love of Bach’s music with a nationalistic style in his nine “Bachianas Brasieiras.” The Prague Guitar Quartet performs their arrangement of #1.

 

The program concludes with a February 2009 interview with composer-guitarist Mark Anthony Cruz, who discusses his humorous encore piece “Bachlava”, which contains five Bach themes.

------------------------------------------------------------

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

-------------------------------------------------------

 

Yes! We plan to broadcast CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!. We understand that this is a FREE program and that this edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! may be broadcast an unlimited number of times within 52 weeks of feed date.

 

Station Call Letters____________Frequency______City/Area___________

Day and Time of Broadcast_______________________________________

Repeaters and Translators________________________________________

Contact Person_______________________ Title________________________

Phone____________________________ Fax ________________________

Address______________________________________________________

City/State/Zip Code ____________________________________________

 

Please return the above info to:

 

Tony Morris, producer/host

Classical Guitar Alive!

PO Box 4975

Austin, TX 78765

 

(512) 474-7463 FAX

(512) 657-1400 phone

 

e-mail:  ClassicalGuitarAlive@gmail.com

Web-site:  http://www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

Benjamin_verdery_small

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 27, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!    16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

 

Program ID# 16-04

Title: 16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

Feed date and time: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude  Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Interview: Andrew McKenna Lee: “It’s genesis came through an idea … …which is basically how that little piece came about.”

Bach: Prelude in d minor BWV 999  Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                        (NWAM 013)

Lee: Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach: 1.Variation

                                                         Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                           (NWAM 013)

 

   Interview: Benjamin Verdery: “I have fond memories of that… …of course he didn’t quite phrase it like that.”

  CPE Bach: Concerto in A major      Benjamin Verdery, guitar

                                             Laurentian String Quintet

                                               Anthony Newman, harpsichord

                                             (Musical Heritage Society)

 

  Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude & Fugue #1  LA Guitar Quartet

                                              (Delos 3205)

 

    Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Well-Tempered Guitars: Prelude & Fugue #5, Prelude 4                                                                                                  

                                                                                       Brasil Guitar Duo

                                              (Naxos 5.70778)

 

  Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras #1                  Prague Guitar Quartet

                                              (Panton 810993-2131)

 

  Interview: Mark Anthony Cruz: “Sure, yeah, that’s one of my favorite pieces… … to make it a very fun piece.”

Cruz: Bachlava                      Mark Anthony Cruz, guitar

                                             (MAC Publications 50532-08582)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

 

The program begins with a March 2009 interview with guitarist-composer Andrew McKenna Lee, in which he talks about how Bach’s Prelude in d minor for lute, BWV 999, became the inspiration and basis of his own piece, “Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach.”

 

In a 1995 interview, guitarist Benjamin Verdery discusses his arrangement of CPE Bach’s Concerto in A major, and relates an account of CPE Bach speaking about his father JS Bach’s organ playing.

 

The program continues with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s recording of the Prelude & Fugue #1 from Book I of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Inspired by Bach’s monumental work of 24 preludes and fugues in each key, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) composed his own set of 24 preludes and fugues for two guitars, and titled it “The Well-Tempered Guitars.” The work was dedicated to the Presti-Lagoya Duo.

 

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) combined his love of Bach’s music with a nationalistic style in his nine “Bachianas Brasieiras.” The Prague Guitar Quartet performs their arrangement of #1.

 

The program concludes with a February 2009 interview with composer-guitarist Mark Anthony Cruz, who discusses his humorous encore piece “Bachlava”, which contains five Bach themes.

------------------------------------------------------------

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

-------------------------------------------------------

 

Yes! We plan to broadcast CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!. We understand that this is a FREE program and that this edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! may be broadcast an unlimited number of times within 52 weeks of feed date.

 

Station Call Letters____________Frequency______City/Area___________

Day and Time of Broadcast_______________________________________

Repeaters and Translators________________________________________

Contact Person_______________________ Title________________________

Phone____________________________ Fax ________________________

Address______________________________________________________

City/State/Zip Code ____________________________________________

 

Please return the above info to:

 

Tony Morris, producer/host

Classical Guitar Alive!

PO Box 4975

Austin, TX 78765

 

(512) 474-7463 FAX

(512) 657-1400 phone

 

e-mail:  ClassicalGuitarAlive@gmail.com

Web-site:  http://www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

Benjamin_verdery_small

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 27, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!    16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

 

Program ID# 16-04

Title: 16-04 Bach and Beyond/ Interviews: Andrew Lee, Benjamin Verdery, Mark Cruz

Feed date and time: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude  Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Interview: Andrew McKenna Lee: “It’s genesis came through an idea … …which is basically how that little piece came about.”

Bach: Prelude in d minor BWV 999  Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                        (NWAM 013)

Lee: Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach: 1.Variation

                                                         Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar

                                           (NWAM 013)

 

   Interview: Benjamin Verdery: “I have fond memories of that… …of course he didn’t quite phrase it like that.”

  CPE Bach: Concerto in A major      Benjamin Verdery, guitar

                                             Laurentian String Quintet

                                               Anthony Newman, harpsichord

                                             (Musical Heritage Society)

 

  Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude & Fugue #1  LA Guitar Quartet

                                              (Delos 3205)

 

    Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Well-Tempered Guitars: Prelude & Fugue #5, Prelude 4                                                                                                  

                                                                                       Brasil Guitar Duo

                                              (Naxos 5.70778)

 

  Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras #1                  Prague Guitar Quartet

                                              (Panton 810993-2131)

 

  Interview: Mark Anthony Cruz: “Sure, yeah, that’s one of my favorite pieces… … to make it a very fun piece.”

Cruz: Bachlava                      Mark Anthony Cruz, guitar

                                             (MAC Publications 50532-08582)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is titled “Bach and Beyond”, and features music inspired or influenced by music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and interviews with Yale University music professor Benjamin Verdery, and composers Andrew McKenna Lee and Mark Anthony Cruz.

 

The program begins with a March 2009 interview with guitarist-composer Andrew McKenna Lee, in which he talks about how Bach’s Prelude in d minor for lute, BWV 999, became the inspiration and basis of his own piece, “Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach.”

 

In a 1995 interview, guitarist Benjamin Verdery discusses his arrangement of CPE Bach’s Concerto in A major, and relates an account of CPE Bach speaking about his father JS Bach’s organ playing.

 

The program continues with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s recording of the Prelude & Fugue #1 from Book I of JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Inspired by Bach’s monumental work of 24 preludes and fugues in each key, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) composed his own set of 24 preludes and fugues for two guitars, and titled it “The Well-Tempered Guitars.” The work was dedicated to the Presti-Lagoya Duo.

 

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) combined his love of Bach’s music with a nationalistic style in his nine “Bachianas Brasieiras.” The Prague Guitar Quartet performs their arrangement of #1.

 

The program concludes with a February 2009 interview with composer-guitarist Mark Anthony Cruz, who discusses his humorous encore piece “Bachlava”, which contains five Bach themes.

------------------------------------------------------------

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

-------------------------------------------------------

 

Yes! We plan to broadcast CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!. We understand that this is a FREE program and that this edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! may be broadcast an unlimited number of times within 52 weeks of feed date.

 

Station Call Letters____________Frequency______City/Area___________

Day and Time of Broadcast_______________________________________

Repeaters and Translators________________________________________

Contact Person_______________________ Title________________________

Phone____________________________ Fax ________________________

Address______________________________________________________

City/State/Zip Code ____________________________________________

 

Please return the above info to:

 

Tony Morris, producer/host

Classical Guitar Alive!

PO Box 4975

Austin, TX 78765

 

(512) 474-7463 FAX

(512) 657-1400 phone

 

e-mail:  ClassicalGuitarAlive@gmail.com

Web-site:  http://www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from films and an October 2015 interview with one of Hollywood’s leading composers: guitar/keyboardist/composer Mark Mancina, who wrote music for films including Twister, Training Day, Bad Boys, Speed, Con Air, Planes, Tarzan, the upcoming Disney animated feature Moana, and produced Elton John’s songs for The Lion King .

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 3, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

 

Program ID#  16-05

Title: 16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

Feed date and time: Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

      Bizet:      Carmen Suite: Prelude               Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                                             (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

     Assad: NATSU NO NIWA:Watermelon       Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars

                                                                            (GHA 126-029)

 

Interview: Mark Mancina: “What was the thing that got you in the door?...  … If I copied that, I’d have to hang myself or something.”

 

    Mark Mancina: MOLL FLANDERS: Moll’s Jig  (1996 Polygram Records 429H)

 

     Barry: DEADFALL                                   Renata Tarrago, guitar

                Romance for guitar & orch.       John Barry, cond.

                                                                          (Retrograde 80124)

Interview: Mark Mancina: “My big break came; I did a movie called ‘True Romance’…  … … my agents were like, ‘Oh… that’s unfortunate.”

 

    Mark Mancina: IMAGINE THAT: Quali Dance  (2009 Paramount Pictures)

 

Excerpt from THE COWBOYS, courtesy Warner Home Video:

     Vivaldi: Concerto in D: Adagio           John Williams, cond./arranger

                                                                          (Warner Home Video)

 

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “One of the super-huge projects you were involved in was ‘THE LION KING.’ How did…   …those were life-changing.”

 

     Bonfa/Jobim: BLACK ORPHEUS       Luiz Bonfa, Antonio Jobim, guitars

                                                                           (Fontana 67520)

 

     Eastwood: UNFORGIVEN                     Laurindo Almeida, guitar

                        Claudia’s Theme                    Lennie Niehaus, cond./arranger

                                                                            (Varese Sarabande 5380)

 

    LABOR DAY: Sor :   Etude 19                 Pepe Romero, guitar (Philips 434-727)

                           Torroba: Montemayor       Andres Segovia, guitar (MCA 42067)

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “How do you  balance your own needs as an artist versus…  …it’s always been a difficult thing, it’s a very weird job.”

 

   Mark Mancina: AUGUST RUSH: Lullabye     (2009 WaterTower Music)

 

     Assad: NATSU NO NIWA: Walk                   Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars

                                                                            (GHA 126-029)

   

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from films and an interview with an October 2015 interview with one of Hollywood’s leading composers: guitaris/keyboardist/composer Mark Mancina, who wrote music for films including Twister, Training Day, Bad Boys, Speed, Con Air, Planes, Tarzan, the upcoming Disney animated feature Moana, and produced Elton John’s songs for The Lion King .

 

The program begins with Sergio Assad’s score for the Japanese film NATSU NO NIWA, or THE SUMMER GARDEN.

 

In this first interview excerpt, Mark Mancina relates how he started by hustling theme music gigs for local businesses, and landed his first job as a composer was for a VHS video, a hunting instructional video on how to gut a deer(!). His piece “Moll’s Jig” is from the film MOLL FLANDERS.

 

John Barry’s 14 minute quasi-guitar concerto, “Romance for Guitar & Orchestra”, as an integral part of the 1968 British film DEADFALL. Guitarist Renata Tarrago performs the piece in a concert scene in the film while a burglary takes place. The film cuts back and forth between scenes of the concert and a jewel heist in a race against time.

 

In the second interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he describes his big break, and writing cues for film composer Hans Zimmer led to Director Jan de Bont’s invitation to write the score to the blockbuster film SPEED. The program continues with Quali Dance from Mark Mancina’s score to IMAGINE THAT (2009).

 

The program continues with an excerpt from the 1972 Warner film THE COWBOYS, starring John Wayne. In this campfire scene, a young boy strums music of Vivaldi on his guitar. This arrangement by composer John Williams serves as a dramatic underpinning to a very poignant scene. It also clearly demonstrates the raw emotional power of the guitar and its ability to dramatically impact the mood of a scene.

 

In the third interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he relates the life-changing experience of how he came to produce Elton John’s songs for THE LION KING, which led to composing music for the long-running stage musical.

 

BLACK ORPHEUS (1958) was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film started the Bossa Nova craze in the US with its score by Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

 

Actor/Director and jazz aficionado Clint Eastwood  composed “Claudia’s Theme” for his 1992 western UNFORGIVEN. Lennie Niehaus orchestrated Eastwood’s theme in his score. This features one of the final performances of guitarist Laurindo Almeida.

 

Two pieces from the classical guitar repertory, Sor’s Etude 19, and Torroba’s Montemayor, were used in the drama LABOR DAY.

 

In the fourth and final interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he illustrates the up/down nature of the film music industry, by relating the stories of how the song Over the Rainbow was initially cut from THE WIZARD OF OZ, and how Bernard Herrmann’s score to 2001 was discarded.

 

The program concludes with Walk on a Bridge, from Sergio Assad’s score for the Japanese film NATSU NO NIWA, or THE SUMMER GARDEN.

 

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16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from films and an October 2015 interview with one of Hollywood’s leading composers: guitar/keyboardist/composer Mark Mancina, who wrote music for films including Twister, Training Day, Bad Boys, Speed, Con Air, Planes, Tarzan, the upcoming Disney animated feature Moana, and produced Elton John’s songs for The Lion King .

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 3, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

 

Program ID#  16-05

Title: 16-05 Film Scores/Mark Mancina Interview

Feed date and time: Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

      Bizet:      Carmen Suite: Prelude               Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                                             (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

     Assad: NATSU NO NIWA:Watermelon       Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars

                                                                            (GHA 126-029)

 

Interview: Mark Mancina: “What was the thing that got you in the door?...  … If I copied that, I’d have to hang myself or something.”

 

    Mark Mancina: MOLL FLANDERS: Moll’s Jig  (1996 Polygram Records 429H)

 

     Barry: DEADFALL                                   Renata Tarrago, guitar

                Romance for guitar & orch.       John Barry, cond.

                                                                          (Retrograde 80124)

Interview: Mark Mancina: “My big break came; I did a movie called ‘True Romance’…  … … my agents were like, ‘Oh… that’s unfortunate.”

 

    Mark Mancina: IMAGINE THAT: Quali Dance  (2009 Paramount Pictures)

 

Excerpt from THE COWBOYS, courtesy Warner Home Video:

     Vivaldi: Concerto in D: Adagio           John Williams, cond./arranger

                                                                          (Warner Home Video)

 

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “One of the super-huge projects you were involved in was ‘THE LION KING.’ How did…   …those were life-changing.”

 

     Bonfa/Jobim: BLACK ORPHEUS       Luiz Bonfa, Antonio Jobim, guitars

                                                                           (Fontana 67520)

 

     Eastwood: UNFORGIVEN                     Laurindo Almeida, guitar

                        Claudia’s Theme                    Lennie Niehaus, cond./arranger

                                                                            (Varese Sarabande 5380)

 

    LABOR DAY: Sor :   Etude 19                 Pepe Romero, guitar (Philips 434-727)

                           Torroba: Montemayor       Andres Segovia, guitar (MCA 42067)

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “How do you  balance your own needs as an artist versus…  …it’s always been a difficult thing, it’s a very weird job.”

 

   Mark Mancina: AUGUST RUSH: Lullabye     (2009 WaterTower Music)

 

     Assad: NATSU NO NIWA: Walk                   Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars

                                                                            (GHA 126-029)

   

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from films and an interview with an October 2015 interview with one of Hollywood’s leading composers: guitaris/keyboardist/composer Mark Mancina, who wrote music for films including Twister, Training Day, Bad Boys, Speed, Con Air, Planes, Tarzan, the upcoming Disney animated feature Moana, and produced Elton John’s songs for The Lion King .

 

The program begins with Sergio Assad’s score for the Japanese film NATSU NO NIWA, or THE SUMMER GARDEN.

 

In this first interview excerpt, Mark Mancina relates how he started by hustling theme music gigs for local businesses, and landed his first job as a composer was for a VHS video, a hunting instructional video on how to gut a deer(!). His piece “Moll’s Jig” is from the film MOLL FLANDERS.

 

John Barry’s 14 minute quasi-guitar concerto, “Romance for Guitar & Orchestra”, as an integral part of the 1968 British film DEADFALL. Guitarist Renata Tarrago performs the piece in a concert scene in the film while a burglary takes place. The film cuts back and forth between scenes of the concert and a jewel heist in a race against time.

 

In the second interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he describes his big break, and writing cues for film composer Hans Zimmer led to Director Jan de Bont’s invitation to write the score to the blockbuster film SPEED. The program continues with Quali Dance from Mark Mancina’s score to IMAGINE THAT (2009).

 

The program continues with an excerpt from the 1972 Warner film THE COWBOYS, starring John Wayne. In this campfire scene, a young boy strums music of Vivaldi on his guitar. This arrangement by composer John Williams serves as a dramatic underpinning to a very poignant scene. It also clearly demonstrates the raw emotional power of the guitar and its ability to dramatically impact the mood of a scene.

 

In the third interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he relates the life-changing experience of how he came to produce Elton John’s songs for THE LION KING, which led to composing music for the long-running stage musical.

 

BLACK ORPHEUS (1958) was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film started the Bossa Nova craze in the US with its score by Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

 

Actor/Director and jazz aficionado Clint Eastwood  composed “Claudia’s Theme” for his 1992 western UNFORGIVEN. Lennie Niehaus orchestrated Eastwood’s theme in his score. This features one of the final performances of guitarist Laurindo Almeida.

 

Two pieces from the classical guitar repertory, Sor’s Etude 19, and Torroba’s Montemayor, were used in the drama LABOR DAY.

 

In the fourth and final interview excerpt with Mark Mancina, he illustrates the up/down nature of the film music industry, by relating the stories of how the song Over the Rainbow was initially cut from THE WIZARD OF OZ, and how Bernard Herrmann’s score to 2001 was discarded.

 

The program concludes with Walk on a Bridge, from Sergio Assad’s score for the Japanese film NATSU NO NIWA, or THE SUMMER GARDEN.

 

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Yes! We plan to broadcast CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!. We understand that this a FREE program and that this edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! may be broadcast and unlimited number of times within 52 weeks of feed date.

 

Station Call Letters ___________Frequency_______________ City/Area___________________________________________

Day and time of Broadcast  __________________________________________

Repeaters and Translators __________________________________________

Signed______________________________ Title________________________

Phone___________________________________________________________ Fax_____________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________

City/ State/ Zip Code ______________________________________________

E-Mail ____________________ Web-site____________________________

Please sign and return the above agreement to:

 

Tony Morris, producer/host

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!

KMFA-FM/Capitol Broadcasting Association

3001 North Lamar Blvd., Suite 100

Austin, TX 78705

 

(512) 476-5632 phone

(512) 474-7463 FAX

 

E-mail: ClassicalGuitarAlive@gmail.com

http://www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

16-13 Vivaldi, Schubert, Ponce

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features the 2016 chart-topping cd by cellist Zuill Bailey and guitarist David Leisner, plus music by Vivaldi, Malcolm Arnold and Manuel Ponce.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: March 29, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  16-13 Vivaldi, Schubert, Ponce

Program ID#  16-13

Title: 16-13 Vivaldi, Schubert, Ponce

Feed date and time: Wednesday, March 29, 2016 at 1300 ET

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D, RV 230     Nigel North, Baroque Lute

                                                                   (Linn Records 006)

 

  Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata                Zuill Bailey, cello

                                                                David Leisner, guitar

                                                                    (Azica 71306)

 

  Malcolm Arnold: Serenade, op. 50         John Williams, guitar

                                                                  English Chamber Orchestra

                                                                  Charles Groves, conductor

                                                                 (Sony 3389356)

 

    Ponce: Sonata III                                   Valerie Hartzell, guitar

                                                                  (Soundset Recordings 702391010360)

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features the 2016 chart-topping cd by cellist Zuill Bailey and guitarist David Leisner, plus music by Vivaldi, Malcolm Arnold and Manuel Ponce.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! welcomes new station WHCP-LP in Cambridge, MD, and celebrates 18 years of national distribution: Now broadcast on over 250 stations internationally, from WWFM in NYC to DZFE in Manila, the Philippines.

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16-14 Leo Brouwer Interview & World Premiere

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2000 interview with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses two approaches to his compositional output, and the world premiere recording of his 9th Guitar Concerto “Benicassim,” which premiered in 2002 and was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish guitar composer Francisco Tarrega.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 6, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!    Leo Brouwer Interview & World Premiere

Program ID#  16-14

Title: 16-14 Leo Brouwer Interview & World Premiere

Feed date and time: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 1300 ET

Total Length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:      Prelude                Los Romeros, guitars

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Bach: Lute Prelude in d minor, BWV 999     Taso Comanescu, guitar

                                                 (Logos Records 5244, 2016)

 

Johann Kropffganss: Lute concerto in c minor    Lutz Kirchhoff, Baroque lute

                                                                            Giuliano Carmignola, violin

                                                                           Francesco Galligioni, cello

                                                  (Sony 888-7505-1512, 2015)

 

Interview: Leo Brouwer: “I have two ways: one is like that…   … you never know if your idea is going to be gigantic or delicate.”

 

  Leo Brouwer: Guitar Concerto #9 “Benicassim”   Miguel Trapaga, guitar

                                                                              Real Filharmonica de Galicia

                                                                               Oliver Diaz, conductor

                                                  (Naxos Records 8.573542,  2016)

 

Trad. Chinese, arr. Garcia:   Cattle in the Meadow, Plum Blossoms

                                                                             Takako Nishizaki, violin 

                                                                               Gerald Garcia, guitar

                                            (Marco Polo 8.223905  1995)

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2000 interview with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses two approaches to his compositional output, and the world premiere recording of his 9th Guitar Concerto “Benicassim,” which premiered in 2002 and was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish guitar composer Francisco Tarrega.

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Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 18 years of national broadcasts and airs each week on over 250 stations internationally.

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16-18 Agustin Barrios Mangore Tribute

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

In honor of the 131st anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a tribute to Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 4, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute

Program ID#  16-18

Title: 16-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute   

Feed date and time: Wednesday, May 4, 2016

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #4              David Russell, guitar
                                                                (Telarc 803732)

Interview: David Russell: “In El Salvador, where he die . . . . . .everybody loved him, all that people that knew him.”

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #3              David Russell, guitar
                                                                 (Telarc 803732)

Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral: III             Denis Azabagic, guitar
                                                                 (Naxos 8.554555)

Interview:
Richard Stover: “When I first began investigating Barrios. . . . . .I never got to get back to her or anything.”

Barrios Mangoré: Julia Florida                    Duo Roldan
                                                                  (Rene Izquierdo 2012)

Interview: Jack Silver: “Well, poor Barrios, there was a lot of racism. He had a lot of Indian features. . . . . Oh yeah, he could play.”

Barrios Mangoré: Romanza  Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                    (Do Re Mi Records 7955)

Barrios Mangoré: Maxixe, Choro da Saudade, Las Abejas   Celil Refik Kaya, guitar
                                                                      (Celil Refik Kaya)

Barrios Mangoré: Prelude in Cminor, Danza Paraguaya Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet, saxophone
                                                                                         Berta Rojas, guitar
                                                                        (OnMusic 11245)

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo                              Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                         (Atlanta Records 65392)

Barrios Mangoré: Mazurka Apassionata           Enno Vorhorst, guitar
                                                                           (Challenge Records 72601)

Barrios Mangoré: Gloria's Prelude (Preludio Saudade) Tony Morris, guitar
                                                                                      (Madoc Films 2014)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

In honor of the 131st anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a tribute to Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

 

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! welcomes new station Radio Free Palmer in Palmer Alaska, and celebrates 18 years of national distribution: Now broadcast on over 250 stations internationally, from WWFM in NYC to DZFE in Manila, the Philippines.

 

 

16-25 Leo Brouwer, Berta Rojas, Julio Reyes Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This edition of Classical Guitar Alive features new releases and a 2000 interview with composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses the hand injury which ended his performing career, a 2015 with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, and an interview/live studio performance by Paraguayan-American guitarist-composer Julio Reyes, and more.

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DT: June 22, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE 16-25 Leo Brouwer, Berta Rojas, Julio Reyes Interviews ***

Title: 16-25 Leo Brouwer, Berta Rojas, Julio Reyes Interviews

Feed date and time: Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Total length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

    Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

   Weiss: Sonata in a minor: Courante               Christopher Wilke, Baroque lute                                                                                                                                         (Wilke 90474-54098)

   Kropfgans: Concerto in c minor                     Lutz Kirchhoff, theorbo

                                                      Giuliano Carmignola, violin

                                                     Francesco Galligioni, cello

                                                     (Sony Vivarte 51351)                                           

   

   Interview: Leo Brouwer: “The question is how I stopped playing…   … that’s it, that’s the reason.”

   Bach: Chaconne                                  Leo Brouwer, guitar

                                                        (Frame Records 1999)

 

   Interview: Berta Rojas: “The project came about …   … the rich history that tango music has.”

   Piazzolla: L’Histoire du Tango                    Berta Rojas, guitar

                                                      Camerata Bariloche

                                                     (Onmusic Recordings 888295266895 )

 

   Interview: Julio Reyes: “That piece is called ‘Onward to Paradise’…   … was one of my mentors.”

   Julio Reyes: Onward to Paradise                 Julio Reyes, guitar

                                                     (live studio performance)

 

   Homero Manze: Sur                              Berta Rojas, guitar

                                                      Camerata Bariloche

                                                     (Onmusic Recordings 888295266895 )

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This edition of Classical Guitar Alive features new releases and a 2000 interview with composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses the hand injury which ended his performing career, a 2015 with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, and an interview/live studio performance by Paraguayan-American guitarist-composer Julio Reyes, and more.

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16-37 Russian Guitar Quartet, Oleg Timofeyev Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2016 interview with Oleg Timofeyev, founder of the Russian Guitar Quartet, who discusses their cd, “A Tribute to the Mighty Handful,” with music by Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, plus Villa-Lobos’s rarely-heard “Introduction to the Choro” for guitar and orchestra.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: September 14, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  RUSSIAN GUITAR QUARTET, OLEG TIMOFEYEV INTERVIEW

Program ID#  16-37

Title: 16-37 Russian Guitar Quartet, Oleg Timofeyev Interview

Total Length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 56:09

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                               Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Balakirev: Under the Green Apple Tree        Russian Guitar Quartet

                                                                       (Delos Records 2016)

 

  Interview: Oleg Timofeyev:   “The idea was to have 4 Russian guitars…   … to make some sort of Russian guitar music in the shape of this quartet that will actually play some of the pieces that people know and associate with Russian music.” 

 

  Borodin: from Prince Igor                              Russian Guitar Quartet

                                                                       ( Delos Records 2016)

 

  Villa-Lobos: Introduction to the Choro          Fabio Zanon, guitar

                                                                       Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra

                                                                      John Neshling, conductor

                                                                         (X5 Music Group 2016)

 

 

  Mussorgsky: Potpourri from Boris Godunov    Russian Guitar Quartet

                                                                           (Delos Records 2016)

 

Interview: Oleg Timofeyev:   “The Mighty Handful is…  … they were the foundation of the so-called Russian Nationalist style in music.”

 

Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Sobolenko: Sheherezade in Spain  Russian Guitar Quartet

                                                                           (Delos Records 2016)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2016 interview with Oleg Timofeyev, founder of the Russian Guitar Quartet, who discusses their cd, “A Tribute to the Mighty Handful,”  with music by Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, plus Villa-Lobos’s rarely-heard “Introduction to the Choro” for guitar and orchestra.

 

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Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes the South Carolina Publlic Radio network!

Nationally broadcast since 1997, CGA airs on over 250 stations each week.

16-43 Pepe Romero Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an October 2016 interview with the great Spanish virtuoso guitarist Pepe Romero, who reflects on his career and working with Neville Marriner, Joaquin Rodrigo, and how his new collaboration with ukulele player Daniel Ho came to be, thanks to his luthier son, Pepe Romero, Jr., and his friend, classical ukulele player John King.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: October 26, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Pepe Romero Interview

Program ID#  16-43

Title: 16-43 Pepe Romero Interview

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Interview: Pepe Romero: “I worked with Neville a lot…  … his magnificent way of music-making.”

Giuliani: Guitar Concerto #1      Pepe Romero, guitar

                                                    Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

                                                     Neville Marriner, conductor

                                                    (2014 Decca Records “Master of the Guitar”)

 

  Barrios Mangore: Limosna por amor de Dios      Pepe Romero, guitar

                                                    (2014 Decca Records “Master of the Guitar”)

 

  Interview: Pepe Romero: “That has everything to do with my latest cd…   … he was also the inspiration for my son to make ukuleles.”

    Sanz: Pavane, Canarios         Pepe Romero, guitar

                                                   Daniel Ho, ukulele

                                                   (2016 Daniel Ho Creations “Aloha Espana”)

 

  Interview: Pepe Romero: “We worked very close…  … how he wanted his music to go.:

  Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre    Pepe Romero, guitar

                                                    Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

                                                     Neville Marriner, conductor

                                                    (2014 Decca Records “Master of the Guitar”)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an October 2016 interview with the great Spanish virtuoso guitarist Pepe Romero, who reflects on his career and working with Neville Marriner, Joaquin Rodrigo, and how his new collaboration with ukulele player Daniel Ho came to be, thanks to his luthier son, Pepe Romero, Jr., and his friend, classical ukulele player John King.

 

Special thanks to Pepe & Carissa Romero, and my friends at KMFA radio and Austin Classical Guitar for their kind help with this week’s interview.

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Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations: South Carolina Public Radio! Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive! is now broadcast each week on over 200 stations across the US and internationally.

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16-48 Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features a 2016 interview with Britain’s Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, whose Chandos Records CD “Aspects” has just been released.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 29, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  16-48 Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Interview

 

Program ID# 16-48

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Interview: Rory Russell: Yes, the title was…     … like to do in our concert programs.”

Rossini: Sinfonia, Italiana in Algiers  Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                    (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

  Walton: 5 Bagatelles      Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                           Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

                                         Andrew Litton, conductor

                                         (EMI Classics 1993   “Rodrigo, Walton”)

 

   Interview: Vasilis Bessas: “John Brunning is a musician…   …finish a disc with that.”

 

  John Brunning: Elegy      Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                    (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

   Clarice Assad: Danzas Nativas   Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                    (Chandos 2009 “Spirit of Brazil”)

 

 

 

   Interview: Rory Russell: “Well, the Punch Brothers…    … we’d love to revisit again in the future.”  

 

Carl Mikael Marin/Punch Brothers:   Flippen (the flip)Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                                       Soon or Never

                                                         Flippen (reprise)

                                    (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features a 2016 interview with Britain’s Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, whose Chandos Records CD “Aspects” has just been released.

16-47 Music of Thanksgiving, Mark Mancina, David Russell Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music of Thanksgiving and an Oct. 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-winning film score composer Mark Mancina, who talks about his score to the upcoming Disney animated feature, "Moana," and a 2007 interview with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, who talks about his charitable organization which builds wells for drinking water in Africa.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 21, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Music of Thanksgiving, Mark Mancina, David Russell Interviews ******

 

Program ID# 16-47

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Bach: Cantata #29: We Thank Thee Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                              Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra                                 

                                    (EMI 1990 “A Bach Celebration” 47195)

 

  Giuliani: Guitar Concerto #2,  Pepe Romero, guitar

                                           Acad. St. Martin In-The-Fields

                                         Sir Neville Marriner, cond.

                                         (Philips 1996  “Giuliani Complete Guitar Concertos” 454-262)

 

  Hand: Psalm of Thanksgiving  Frederic Hand, guitar

                                          Jayna Nelson, flute

                                           (Panoramic Records “Odyssey” 2016 )

 

   Interview: David Russell: “We finance people in Africa, at the moment, to build wells…  … in some places it’s not so easy. And, so, a well is fairly simple to do. And it’s not that expensive. It costs us a couple of thousand Euros, approximately, a little bit less, a little bit more, depending on the place. So, we can kind of aim at getting that. And it really can make a difference.”

 

  Torroba: Fandango       David Russell, guitar

                                         (Telarc 1996 “Music of Torroba” 80451)

 

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “Why did I pick nylon (string guitar)?...  …I played one of them, and then we had a really wonderful guitarist named George Doering who came in and played .”

 

Mark Mancina: How Far I’ll Go (instrumental)   George Doering, guitar

                                                                           Studio orchestra

                                                                             Mark Mancina, conductor

                                          (Disney 2016 “Moana” )

 

Traditional: Simple Gifts  Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                     (EMI 1982 “Simple Gifts” 47525)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music for Thanksgiving, and a 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-winning film score composer Mark Mancina, who wrote the score for the Disney animated feature “Moana” and co-wrote songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a 2007 interview with Grammy- winning guitarist David Russell, who talks about his charitable organization which finances wells for drinking water in Africa.

16-46 Celil Refik Kaya Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a November 2016 interview with the young Turkish virtuoso Celil Refik Kaya, who has just released a new cd of the complete works of Argentine composer Jorge Morel (b. 1931).

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 16, 2016

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Celil Refik Kaya Interview

Program ID#  16-46

Title: 16-46 Celil Refik Kaya Interview

Feed date: November 8, 2016

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Morel: Danza Brasilera              Celil Refik Kaya, guitar

                                                       (Naxos 2016 “Jorge Morel Guitar Music”)                                                  

 

Interview: Celil Refik Kaya: “Jorge Morel was always a legend for me, growing up in Turkey…  … this is the first volume.”

 

Morel: Sonatina                        Celil Refik Kaya, guitar

                                                 (Naxos 2016 “Jorge Morel Guitar Music”)                                                  

 

Jorge Morel: Concierto Rapsodico       Krzysztof Pelech, guitar

                                                              Capella Bydgostiensis

                                                               Michel Nesterowicz, conductor

                                                               (Luthier Music 2881-61413-27)

 

Sanz: Canarios                               Julian Bream, guitar

                                                        (RCA 1993 “Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar”)

 

Interview: Celil Refik Kaya: “Growing up in …    … Maestro Jorge Morel’s music, very much.”

 

Morel: Little Rhapsody                           Celil Refik Kaya, guitar

                                                         (Naxos 2016 “Jorge Morel Guitar Music”)   

 

Morel: Prelude and Dance for Celil      Celil Refik Kaya, guitar

                                                         (Naxos 2016 “Jorge Morel Guitar Music”)                                                  

                                      

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a November 2016 interview with the young Turkish virtuoso Celil Refik Kaya, who has just released a new cd of the complete works of Argentine composer Jorge Morel (b. 1931).

16-51 Christmas Music, Mark Cruz, Liona Boyd Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s program features music for Christmas and a 2016 interview with guitarist-composer Mark Cruz and a 1999 interview with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd.

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FR: Tony Morris

DT: December 19, 2016

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   CHRISTMAS****

Title: Christmas Music, Mark Cruz, Liona Boyd Interviews

Total length: 58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Traditional Welsh: Deck the Halls  Kevin Gallagher, guitar

                                                        (Robert Victor 1)                                

                                  

  Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

                                                   (Delos 3132)                                         

                                                         

  Small: December 26                     Small/Torres Guitar Duo

  Trad.: Bring a Torch, Jeanette      Nancy Hair, cello

  Trad:  In Dulci Jubilo                     Kathy Lord, oboe

                                                   Nancy Roth, violin

   (Shadow Mountain 52802)

                                                       (Shadow Mountain 55882)

 

  Adam: O Holy Night                       Kevin Gallagher, guitar

                                                    (Robert Victor 1)

 

  Interview: Liona Boyd: “Yes, it was a perfect title …  … how exciting it is to learn the guitar- what better introduction.”

 

  Trad: Spanish Carol                      Liona Boyd, guitar

  Robertson: Prelude on Huron Carol Toronto Orchestra

  Trad: Yuletide Garland                  (Moston Records 9905-700212)

 

Christmas Medley                           Kevin Gallagher, guitar

    (Robert Victor 1)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s program features music for Christmas and a 2016 interview with guitarist-composer Mark Cruz and a 1999 interview with Canadianguitarist Liona Boyd.

17-05 Women Composers, Connie Sheu Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s program features music by women composers and an interview with guitarist Connie Shue.
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Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 250 stations in the US and abroad.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 1, 2017

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   Women Composers, Connie Sheu Interview****

Program ID# 17-05

Title: Women Composers, Connie Sheu Interview

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Interview: Connie Sheu: “Emilia Giuliani was Mauro Giuliani’s daughter…  … as well as composition.”

 

  Emilia Giuliani: Variations on a theme of Mercadante    Connie Sheu, guitar

                                                          (Connie Sheu 84501-74528)                               

                                  

Isabella Leonarda: Sonata Prima, op. 16     Viva Trio

                                                          (Live recording 2006)

 

  Interview: Connie Sheu:”I’ve always admired Dale Kavanagh as a performer…  … get a lot of great comments about these works.”

 

  Dale Kavanagh: Three Preludes        Connie Sheu, guitar

                                                        (Connie Sheu 84501-74528)

 

  Sylvie Bodorova: Three Canzonas     Lubomir Brabec, guitar

                                                             Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

                                                             Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

                                                             (Supraphon 3272)

 

  Ida Presti: Danse Rhythmique             Chris Bilobram, guitar

                                                              (Quersand 0422)                               

 

  Clarice Assad: Dancas Nativas           Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

         (EMI 98361)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s program features music by women composers and a 2012 interview with guitarist Connie Shue.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week in over 250 stations internationally.

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17-09 Susan McDonald, Anibal Acosta Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features interviews with guitarist Susan MacDonald, who discusses how performing for patients at MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center marked the beginning of her career as a composer, and composer Anibal Acosta, who speaks about his “Serenata for violin and guitar,” which won first prize in the 1987 MTNA Composition Contest.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 28, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!    17-09 Susan MacDonald, Anibal Acosta Interviews

 

Program ID# 17-09

Title: Susan MacDonald, Anibal Acosta Interviews

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude  Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios: La Catedral         Susan MacDonald, guitar

                                        (Mayfly Records 9502)

 

  Carulli: Grand Duo op. 86  Sonja Prunnbauer, guitar

                                             Robert Hill, fortepiano

                                             (MDG Scene 603-0616)

 

  Interview: Susan MacDonald:   “Well, I’ve been so excited because I always wanted nothing more than to be a concert guitarist …   … opened a well of creativity that I didn’t know existed.”

MacDonald: The Question    Susan MacDonald, guitar

                                             (Mayfly Records 0608)

 

  Kohaut: Concerto in D         Heiki Matlik, guitar

                                               Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

                                             (ILOPrint Klassika Radio 2008)

 

    Interview: Anibal Acosta: “The Serenata for violin and guitar is another interesting piece …   … so that’s done quite well.”

   Acosta: Serenata               Odette Berger, violin

                                              Anibal Acosta, guitar

                                           (live recording 1992)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features interviews with guitarist Susan MacDonald, who discusses how performing for patients at MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center marked the beginning of her career as a composer, and composer Anibal Acosta, who speaks about his “Serenata for violin and guitar,” which won first prize in the 1987 MTNA Composition Contest.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

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17-12 Around the World

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s program features music from around the world, including works from Japan, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, and Argentina.
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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally, and winner at PRX’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and #2 for Most Licensed Series!
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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: March 22, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   17-12 Around the World

Program ID# 17-12

Title: Around the World

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

  Traditional: Sakura                        Luz Maria Bobadilla, guitar

                                                       (Quixote Records)

 

  Roberto Sierra: Folias                   Manuel Barrueco, guitar

                                                        Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia

                                                       Victor Pablo Perez, conductor

                                                       (Koch  99923-75972)

 

  Tarrega: Fantasy on La Traviata    Michalis Kontaxakis, guitar

                                                        (Naxos 8.570191)

 

  Gnattali: Concerto Brasiliera        Daniel Wolff, guitar

                                                       Ulbra Chamber Orchestra

                                                        Tiago Flores, conductor

                                                        (Danel Wolff 2006)

                                                         

  Houghton: Kinkachoo, I Love You  Stephen Robinson, guitar

                                                        (Clear Note 74301)

 

  Raimo Kangro: Alla Sincerone      Duo Concertante

                                                       (Antes Edition 31.9160)

 

  Piazzolla: Fuga e Misterio             Fernando Suarez Paz, violin

                                                       Assad Duo

                                                       (GHA 126-027)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features music from around the world, including works from Japan, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, and Argentina.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

Good News!: CGA is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and #2 for Most Licensed Series!

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17-13 Xuefei Yang, Tali Roth Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Xuefei Yang, whose concerto disc has just been released on EMI, and Tali Roth, who is featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s film, “You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” a new release by the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, and a classic, out-of-print cd of Kapsberger’s music recorded by Rolf Lislevand.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: March 28, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Xuefei Yang, Tali Roth Interviews

Program ID#  17-13

Title: 17-13 Xuefei Yang, Tali Roth   Interviews

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Interview: Tali Roth: “So they basically found me…   …if they wanted.”

  Boccherini: Grave assai, G448    Tali Roth, guitars

                                                        (Milan Records)

 

  Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, RV522        Melbourne Guitar Quartet

                                                           (MGQ002)

 

  Interview: Xuefei Yang: “I’ve always loved Albeniz’s music… … I think it turned out to be quite beautiful.”

Stephen Goss: Albeniz Concerto     Xuefei Yang, guitar

                                                          Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

                                                         Eiji Oue, conductor

                                                             (EMI 98361)

 

    Kapsberger: Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata   Rolf Lislevand, Theorbo

                        Colascione

                                                      (Astree 8515)

 

    Nigel Westlake: Omphalo Centric Lecture   Melbourne Guitar Quartet

                                                       (MGQ002)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Xuefei Yang, whose concerto disc has just been released on EMI, and Tali Roth, who is featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s film, “You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger,”  a new release by the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, and a classic, out-of-print cd of Kapsberger’s music recorded by Rolf Lislevand.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

Good News!: CGA is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and #2 for Most Licensed Series!

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17-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

In honor of the 132nd anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.
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Classical Guitar Alive! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and #2 for Most Licensed Series!
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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 1, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute

Program ID#  17-18

Title: 17-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute   

Feed date and time: Wednesday, May 1, 2017

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:58

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #4              David Russell, guitar
                                                                (Telarc 803732)

Interview: David Russell: “In El Salvador, where he die . . . . . .everybody loved him, all that people that knew him.”

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #3              David Russell, guitar
                                                                 (Telarc 803732)

Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral: III             Denis Azabagic, guitar
                                                                  (Naxos 8.554555)

Interview:
Richard Stover: “When I first began investigating Barrios. . . . . .I never got to get back to her or anything.”

Barrios Mangoré: Julia Florida                   Duo Roldan
                                                                  (Rene Izquierdo 2012)

Interview: Jack Silver: “Well, poor Barrios, there was a lot of racism. He had a lot of Indian features. . . . . Oh yeah, he could play.”

Barrios Mangoré: Romanza  Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                    (Do Re Mi Records 7955)

Barrios Mangoré: Maxixe, Choro da Saudade, Las Abejas   Celil Refik Kaya, guitar
                                                                      (Celil Refik Kaya)

Barrios Mangoré: Prelude in Cminor, Danza Paraguaya Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet, saxophone
                                                                                         Berta Rojas, guitar
                                                                         (OnMusic 11245)

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo                             Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                         (Atlanta Records 65392)

Barrios Mangoré: Mazurka Apassionata           Enno Vorhorst, guitar
                                                                           (Challenge Records 72601)

Barrios Mangoré: Gloria's Prelude (Preludio Saudade) Tony Morris, guitar
                                                                                      (Madoc Films 2014)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

In honor of the 132nd anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and #2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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17-21 Platero & I, Rossini, Albeniz, Palumbo

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Platero y Yo” for guitar and narrator (based on text by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez), Albeniz (orchestrated by Leo Brouwer), Rossini, and Massimo Palumbo.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 24, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Platero & I, Rossini, Albeniz, Palumbo

Program ID# 17-21

Title: 17-21 Platero & I, Rossini, Albeniz, Palumbo

Feed date and time: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 1300 ET

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude   Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Rossini: Overture from William Tell                    Canadian Guitar Quartet

                        (D’Oz 1400)

                                      

  Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Platero y Yo (excerpts)   Don Doyle, narrator

                                                                              Frank Koonce, guitar

                                     (Soundset 099402100227)

                        

  Albeniz, arr. Brouwer: Iberia                              Timo Korhonen, guitar

                                                                              Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

                                       Tuomas Ollila, conductor

                                       (Ondine 979-2)

 

    Massimo Palumbo: Fantasia, homage to Ennio Morricone   Leopoldo Saracino, guitar

                                                                                                  Massimo Palumbo, piano       

    (Fonitcetra 2029)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Platero y Yo” for guitar and narrator (based on text by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez), Albeniz (orchestrated by Leo Brouwer), Rossini, and Massimo Palumbo.

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Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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17-22 Asia Minor and more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music from Asia Minor and more, including music from Turkey, Armenia, Greece and Macedonia.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 31, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   ASIA MINOR & MORE

Program ID# 17-22

Title:  Music of Asia Minor and More

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Dimitri Fampas: Greek Dance #1  Eva Fampas, guitar

                                    (Aulia 69001)

 

   Domeniconi: Koyunbaba          Xuefei Yang, guitar

                                    (Shine Horn 1029)

 

    Hovhaness: Guitar Concerto #1  David Leisner, guitar

                                                        Berlin Radio Symphony Orch.

                                                       Gerard Schwarz, conductor

                                   (Naxos 559294)

 

  Theodorakis: Two Epitafios         John Williams, guitar

                                   (Sony Classical 90399)

 

  Miroslav Tadic: Walk Dance      Scott Tennant, guitar

                                    (Sony Classical 89100)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

 

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music from Asia Minor and more, including music from Turkey, Armenia,  Greece and Macedonia.

 

The program begins with the Greek Dance #1 by Dimitri Fampas (1922-1996), performed by the composer’s daughter, Eva Fampas. Dimitri Fampas was a student of Segovia and Emilio Pujol, Dimitri Fampas enjoyed a long and successful career as performing guitarist and composer.

 

Carlo Domeniconi’s exotic and hypnotic Turkish-influenced piece  “Koyunbaba” (“Shepherd’) has emerged as one of the most popular solo guitar works of the last 20 years. The piece is heard in an early recording by Chinese prodigy Xuefei Yang.

 

Commissioned by and dedicated to Bolivian guitarist Javier Calderon in 1978, the “Guitar Concerto No. 1” by Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was first premiered in 1979. However, a commercially-available recording of the piece was not issued until 2006 on the Naxos label featuring American guitarist David Leisner and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

 

Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (b. 1925) is best known for his film scores for “Zorba the Greek”, and “Serpico”, but has also composed symphonic, chamber, and stage works. His cycle of “Epitafios” is a setting of poems in a Greek folk instrument style of poems by Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990).

 

The program concludes with Scott Tennant performing Miroslav Tadic’s “Walk Dance”. The work is based on a Macedonian dance in 11/8 time: (2+2+3+2+2).

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Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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17-28 Pat Coldrick, Carmen Maret Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Irish guitarist Pat Coldrick, and composer/flutist Carmen Maret of the Folias Duo, and music by Barrios Mangore, Handel, Albeniz, and Horacio Salinas.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: July 12, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  17-28 Pat Coldrick, Carmen Maret Interviews and more

Title: 17-28 Pat Coldrick, Carmen Maret Interviews and more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Albeniz: Malaguena                    Pat Coldrick, guitar

                                                       (Sonatina Records 2014)                                                  

 

Handel: Chaconne                     Duo Amaral

                                                    (Duo Amaral 84501-98598)

 

  Agustin Barrios Mangore: Las Abejas        Pat Coldrick, guitar

                                                    (Sonatina Records 2014)                                                  

 

 

Horacio Salinas: Danzas Peregrinas   John Williams, guitar

                                                              English Chamber Orchestra

                                                              Paul Daniel, conductor

                                                      (JCW 3)  

 

  Interview: Carmen Maret: “Yeah, that was a piece I started…  … the Scotch Bonnet is named after the habanero pepper variety.”

 

  Maret & Bergeron:Scotch Bonnet  Folias Duo

                                                      (Folias Duo 2014)

 

Interview: Pat Coldrick: “Basically, as a 22, 23-year-old …   … and I still am, although some mightn’t agree with you.”

 

  Albeniz: Sevilla                            Pat Coldrick, guitar

                                                    (Sonatina Records 2014) 

 

  Agustin Barrios Mangore: Danza Paraguaya        Pat Coldrick, guitar

                                                    (Sonatina Records 2014)                                                   

    

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Irish guitarist Pat Coldrick, and composer/flutist Carmen Maret of the Folias Duo, and music by Barrios Mangore, Handel, Albeniz, and Horacio Salinas.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

17-40 Ann Ireland Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Ann Ireland, author of the novel “The Blue Guitar,” a story about an international classical guitar competition in Montreal, and music by Bach, Ravel, Francois Gauthier, Leo Brouwer’s “Toronto Concerto,” and Canadian performers including the Henderson-Kolk Duo, and the Quebec-based ensemble Forestare.

FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-edition

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:
#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and
#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: October 4, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE 17-40 Ann Ireland Interview ***

 

Program ID#  17-40

Title: 17-40 Ann Ireland Interview

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

    Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude     Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

  Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude        Henderson-Kolk Duo

                                                         (Henderson Kolk 2010 )

 

  Interview: Ann Ireland: “I found the title from a famous Wallace Stevens poem…  …a complicated emotional attachment to guitars.”

   

  Bach: Violin Sonata in a minor, BWV 1020         Hans-Erik Sparf, baroque violin

                                                       David Harenstam, guitar

                                                       (Propius 2056)

 

    Interview: Ann Ireland:”I know, it can seem a little esoteric to people …    …let alone in an athletic competition arena.”

 

  Leo Brouwer: Toronto Concerto                    John Williams, guitar

                                                      London Sinfonietta

                                                      Stephen Mercurio, conductor

                                                        (Sony Classical 63173)

 

    Francois Gauthier: Millipede                        Forestare

                                                      (ATMA 2572))

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features an interview with Ann Ireland, author of the novel “The Blue Guitar,” a story about an international classical guitar competition in Montreal, and music by Bach, Ravel, Francois Gauthier, Leo Brouwer’s “Toronto Concerto,” and Canadian performers including the Henderson-Kolk Duo, and the Quebec-based ensemble Forestare.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

------------------------------------------------------- 

17-44 Shaun Rigney Interview, Torroba, Tedesco, Giuliani, Assad, & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features major works by Giuliani, Torroba, Sergio Assad, and an interview with Australian composer Shaun Rigney, who talks about his Chamber Concerto.

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:
#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and
#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 1, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Shaun Rigney Interview, Torroba, Tedesco, Giuliani, Assad, & more ****

Program ID# 17-44

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude   Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Sanz: Canarios           Emanuele Segre, guitar

                         (Delos 3347)

                                      

  Giuliani: Grand Overture   Daekun Jang, guitar

                                       (Aulos Media 101)

                        

  Torroba: Concierto de Castilla  Michael Troster, guitar

              Warschaur Orchestra

              Janus Przybylski, conductor

                                       (Thorofon 2171)

 

  Sergio Assad: Fantasia Carioca   Austin Moorhead, guitar

    (Soundset 2391-01029)

 

   Interview: Shaun Rigney: “I devised the piece in three movements… … nightmarish quality to it.”

 

   Shaun Rigney: Chamber Concerto    Slava Grigoryan, guitar

                                                               Southern Cross Soloists

                                             (ABC Classics 476-6887 )

 

   Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Prelude 12 in C   Brasil Guitar Duo

                                              (Naxos 8.570778)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features major works by Giuliani, Torroba, Sergio Assad, and an interview with Australian composer Shaun Rigney, who talks about his Chamber Concerto.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

------------------------------------------------------- 

17-45 Judicael Perroy, Berta Rojas, Simon Thacker Interviews & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features 2017 interviews with French guitarist Judicael Perroy, Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, Scottish guitarist-composer Simon Thacker, who discuss their latest recordings, and music by Bach, Radames Gnattali, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Baden Powell, SimonThacker, and Antonio Lauro.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 8, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Judicael Perroy, Berta Rojas, Simon Thacker Interviews & more ****

Program ID# 17-45

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude   Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D, BWV 972  Judicael Perroy, guitar

                         (Naxos 2012)

                                      

  Gnattali: Guitar Concerto #4 “Brasileira”  Marco Salcito, guitar

                                                                   Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra

                                                                  Marcello Bufalini, conductor

                                                                   (Brilliant Classics 2017)

 

    Interview: Judicael Perroy: “Mainly, the theme is Paris…  ..yes, the publisher.”   

           

  Villa-Lobos: Suite Populaire Bresilienne   Judicael Perroy, guitar

                                       (Contrastes Records 2017)

 

Interview: Simon Thacker: “Karmana is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘performing anything by means of magic’…  … special quality that stays with you.”  

 

Thacker: Karmana Suite: Finale   Justyna Jablonska, cello

                                                      Simon Thacker, guitar

    (Soundset 2391-01029)

 

   Piazzolla: Invierno Porteno   Duo Perlamusica

                                             (ABC Classics 476-6887 )

 

  Interview: Berta Rojas: “ Well, I started this idea of traveling… …and we call it of course, ‘Homenaje a Baden Powell”

 

  Powell, arr. Enriques: Homage to Baden Powell  Berta Rojas, guitar

 

   Lauro: Venezuelan Waltz #2    Eduardo Fernandez, guitar    

                                              (Naxos 8.570778)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features 2017 interviews with French guitarist Judicael Perroy, Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, Scottish guitarist-composer Simon Thacker, who discuss their latest recordings, and music by Bach, Radames Gnattali, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Baden Powell, SimonThacker, and Antonio Lauro.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

17-46 Eliot Fisk, Jeremy Jouve, Marian Budos Interviews & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features three 2017 interviews, including: American guitarist Eliot Fisk, who talks about musical inspiration from flamenco, Bruce Springsteen, and the Rolling Stones, French guitarist Jeremy Jouve, who discusses Joaquin Rodrigo’s music, and winning the Guitar Foundation of America competition, and Australian composer Marian Budos speaks about his musical tribute to David Bowie.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 15, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Eliot Fisk, Jeremy Jouve, Marian Budos Interviews & more ****

Program ID# 17-46

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude   Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Scarlatti: Sonata in G, K146       Xianji Liu, guitar

                         (Naxos 2017)

 

    Interview: Eliot Fisk: “The flamenco guys, I think, are incredibly inspirational…   …it’s the right home for me to be living in.”                                        

  Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto #1 “Brasileira”  Eliot Fisk, guitar

                                                                   Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

                                                                   Richard Kapp, conductor

                                                                  (Musical Heritage Society 2004)

 

  Granados: Goyescas #1                   Trio Campanella

                                       (Naxos 2006)

 

Interview: Jeremy Jouve:“This is, you’re right, an example of…   … for me, same story.”  

Rodrigo: Canconeta, arr. Jouve      Jeremy Jouve, guitar

    (Naxos 2013)

 

  Interview: Marian Budos: “I think about 2, 3 years ago…  …put together in a way that would work.”

  Marian Budos: Passing of a Black Star     New Zealand Guitar Quartet

                                                                    (Rattle Records 2017)

 

  Interview: Jeremy Jouve: “Yes, of course it changed…  …opened doors, not only in the US, but all over the world, for sure.”

  Mathias Duplessy: Cavalcade                   Jeremy Jouve, guitar

                                                                   (Absilone 2015)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features three 2017 interviews, including: American guitarist Eliot Fisk, who talks about musical inspiration from flamenco, Bruce Springsteen, and the Rolling Stones, French guitarist Jeremy Jouve, who discusses Joaquin Rodrigo’s music, and winning the Guitar Foundation of America competition, and Australian composer Marian Budos speaks about his musical tribute to David Bowie, “Passing of a Black Star.”

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

17-47 Music of Thanksgiving, Mark Mancina, David Russell Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music for Thanksgiving, and an interview with 3-time Grammy-winning film score composer Mark Mancina, whose score for the Disney animated feature “Moana” won a 2017 American Music Award, and he also co-wrote songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and also a 2007 interview with Grammy- winning guitarist David Russell, who talks about his charitable organization which finances wells for drinking water in Africa.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 21, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Music of Thanksgiving, Mark Mancina, David Russell Interviews ******

 

Program ID# 17-47

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Bach: Cantata #29: We Thank Thee Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                              Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra                                 

                                    (EMI 1990 “A Bach Celebration” 47195)

 

  Giuliani: Guitar Concerto #2,  Pepe Romero, guitar

                                           Acad. St. Martin In-The-Fields

                                         Sir Neville Marriner, cond.

                                         (Philips 1996  “Giuliani Complete Guitar Concertos” 454-262)

 

  Hand: Psalm of Thanksgiving  Frederic Hand, guitar

                                          Jayna Nelson, flute

                                           (Panoramic Records “Odyssey” 2016 )

 

   Interview: David Russell: “We finance people in Africa, at the moment, to build wells…  … in some places it’s not so easy. And, so, a well is fairly simple to do. And it’s not that expensive. It costs us a couple of thousand Euros, approximately, a little bit less, a little bit more, depending on the place. So, we can kind of aim at getting that. And it really can make a difference.”

 

  Torroba: Fandango       David Russell, guitar

                                         (Telarc 1996 “Music of Torroba” 80451)

 

   Interview: Mark Mancina: “Why did I pick nylon (string guitar)?...  …I played one of them, and then we had a really wonderful guitarist named George Doering who came in and played .”

 

Mark Mancina/Lin-Manuel Miranda: How Far I’ll Go (instrumental)   George Doering, guitar

                                                                           Studio orchestra

                                                                            Mark Mancina, conductor

                                          (Disney 2016 “Moana” )

 

Traditional: Simple Gifts  Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                     (EMI 1982 “Simple Gifts” 47525)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music for Thanksgiving, and an interview with 3-time Grammy-winning film score composer Mark Mancina, whose score for the Disney animated feature “Moana” won a 2017 American Music Award, and he also co-wrote songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and also a 2007 interview with Grammy- winning guitarist David Russell, who talks about his charitable organization which finances wells for drinking water in Africa.

17-49 Ron Pearl Interview, Falla, Tedesco, Baumann, Heinze

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with composer and guitarist Ronald Pearl, who talks about is Turkish literature-inspired solo guitar piece, “My Name is Red, and music by Falla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Baumann, and Heinze.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: December 5, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  17-49 Ron Pearl Interview, Falla, Tedesco, Baumann, Heinze

Program ID# 17-49

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:58

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Walter Heinze: Two Concordancias   Eric Slavin, guitar

                                     (UR Music 002)

 

   Herbert Baumann: Guitar Concerto    Michael Troster, guitar

                                                    Capella Bydgostiensis

                                                    Herbert Baumann, conductor

                                    (Thorofon 2309)

 

    Interview: Ronald Pearl: “How the piece ended up … … connection between the book and the sketches I was writing sort of came together.”

 

  Ronald Pearl: My Name is Red     Ronald Pearl, guitar

                                    (live recording)

 

  Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Serenade op. 118     Michael Troster, guitar

                                                     Warsaw Symphony Orchestra

                                                     Janusz Przybylski, conductor

                                   (Thorofon 2171)

 

  Falla: Jota                       Jacqueline Du Pre, cello

                                         John Williams, guitar

                                    (EMI 4167)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

 

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with composer and guitarist Ronald Pearl, who talks about is Turkish literature-inspired solo guitar piece, “My Name is Red, and music by Falla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Baumann, and Heinze.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

17-50 Brazilian Guitar Quartet Interview, music by Albeniz, Maza, Brouwer, Goss, Sumera

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with Luiz Mantovani of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, and music by Albeniz, Maza, Leo Brouwer, Stephen Goss, and Lepo Sumera.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: December 13, 2017

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   17-50 Brazilian Guitar Quartet interview

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Sainz de la Maza: Campanas del Alba  Johannes Moller, guitar

                                    (SFZ 6014)

 

  Interview, Luiz Mantovani: “ This was a project that the quartet had since its very beginning …  … Tadeu is the guy that makes the arrangements, so I think he did great work on that.”

 

   Albeniz: Three Pieces from Iberia    Brazilian Guitar Quartet

                                   (Delox 3364)

 

    Lepo Sumera: Quasi Improvisata     Arvo Leibur, violin

                                                             Terje Terasmaa, vibraphone

                                                            Heiki Matlik, guitar

                                      (Estonian Music Information Centre 2001)

 

    Stephen Goss: Two Pieces from The Chinese Garden   Xuefei Yang, guitar

                                    (EMI 06322)

 

    Brouwer: Guitar Quintet                   UALR String Quartet

                                                            Michael Carenbauer, guitar

                                    (MC 72452)

 

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with Luiz Mantovani of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, and music by Albeniz, Maza, Leo Brouwer, Stephen Goss, and Lepo Sumera.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

17-51 Christmas Music, Mark Cruz, Liona Boyd Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s program features music for Christmas and interviews with American guitarist-composer Mark Cruz and Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd.

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FR: Tony Morris

DT: December 14, 2017

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   CHRISTMAS****

Title: Christmas Music, Mark Cruz, Liona Boyd Interviews

Total length: 58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Traditional Welsh: Deck the Halls  Kevin Gallagher, guitar

                                                        (Robert Victor 1)                                

                                  

  Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

                                                   (Delos 3132)                                          

                                                         

  Small: December 26                     Small/Torres Guitar Duo

  Trad.: Bring a Torch, Jeanette      Nancy Hair, cello

  Trad:  In Dulci Jubilo                     Kathy Lord, oboe

                                                   Nancy Roth, violin

   (Shadow Mountain 52802)

                                                       (Shadow Mountain 55882)

 

  Adam: O Holy Night                       Kevin Gallagher, guitar

                                                    (Robert Victor 1)

 

  Interview: Liona Boyd: “Yes, it was a perfect title …  … how exciting it is to learn the guitar- what better introduction.”

 

  Trad: Spanish Carol                      Liona Boyd, guitar

  Robertson: Prelude on Huron Carol Toronto Orchestra

  Trad: Yuletide Garland                   (Moston Records 9905-700212)

 

Christmas Medley                           Kevin Gallagher, guitar

    (Robert Victor 1)

 

Interview: Mark Cruz: “Yeah, my favorite Christmas memory is my brother Manuel…   … and one I’ll never forget.”

 

Traditional, arr. Cruz: We 3 Kings, We wish you   Mark Cruz, guitar

                                                        (MAC 2015)

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s program features music for Christmas and interviews with American guitarist-composer Mark Cruz and Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-01 Mozart & More, Interviews: Castellani-Andriaccio Duo, Christina Sandsengen

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Mozart and more, and Dec. 2017 interviews with the Castellani-Andriaccio Duo and Norwegian guitarist Christina Sandsengen.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 3, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Mozart & more, Interviews: Christina Sandsengen, Castellani-Andriaccio Duo

Program ID# 18-01

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   William Beauvis: Appalachian Colours: Blue  Emma Rush, guitar

                                     (Emma Rush Records 2017 “Canadiana”)

 

  Interview: Castellani-Andriaccio Duo: “Our duo got started…   … we have to keep the duo together.”

  Marcello: Concerto in d minor   Castellani-Andriaccio Duo

                                                     Israel Chamber Orchestra

                                                     Arie Lipsky, conductor

                                  (Fleur de Son Records 2001 “Concerti for two guitars and strings”)

 

  Interview: Christina Sandsengen: “It’s very romantic…   … it doesn’t resonate with my heart.”

  Aguado: Andante Rondo                          Christina Sandsengen, guitar

                                   (Odradek Records 2014 “Shades and Contrasts”)

 

    Mozart: Symphony #40 in g minor, K550, arr. Montiel   Texas Guitar Quartet

                                    (Texas Guitar Quartet Records 2017 “Icon”)

 

  Garoto: Desvairada            Flavio Apro, guitar

                                   (Brilliant Classics 2014 “The Brazilian Guitar”)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Mozart and more, and Dec. 2017 interviews with the Castellani-Andriaccio Duo and Norwegian guitarist Christina Sandsengen.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! welcomes new stations of the Texas Public Radio network, and celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-02 Vivaldi, Falla, Morel & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features new music by Duo Amaral (Vivaldi), Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s Concierto Rapsodico, a cello/guitar duo arrangement of songs by de Falla, and a large-scale chamber work for mandolin, guitar, and harpsichord by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun.

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 TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 10, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 18-02 Vivaldi, Falla, Morel, & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Vivaldi: L’estro Armonico Concerto #9 RV230    Duo Amaral

                                                                    (Duo Amaral 84501-98598)

 

  Jorge Morel: Concierto Rapsodico       Krzysztof Pelech, guitar

                                                               Capella Bydgostiensis

                                                               Michel Nesterowicz, conductor

                                                                  (Luthier Music 2881-61413-27)

 

  Manuel de Falla: Tonadillas in Ancient Style   Anne Gastinel, cello

                                                                         Pablo Marquez, guitar

                                                                 (Naïve Records 5182)

                                                  

    Yehezkel Braun: Music for Plucked Strings  Three Plucked Strings

                                                                (Three Plucked Strings 2002)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features new music by Duo Amaral (Vivaldi), Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s Concierto Rapsodico, a cello/guitar duo arrangement of songs by de Falla, and a large-scale chamber work for mandolin, guitar, and harpsichord by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-03 Brasil Guitar Duo Interview, Bach, Bernstein, & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Brasil Guitar Duo member Douglas Lora and music by Kapsberger, Bach, Elmer Bernstein, and Jerry Dadap’s arrangement of a traditional Appalachian Hymn tune.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 18, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-03 Brasil Guitar Duo Interview, Bach, Bernstein, & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Kapsberger: Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata    Rolf Lislevand, theorbo

                                                    (Astree 8515)                                                   

 

  Interview: Douglas Lora, of Brasil Guitar Duo: “Talking about guitar duos, there’s a big tradition of guitar duos in Brasil …  … we play in duo because of them.”

 

  Bach: Flute Sonata in gm          Marina Piccinini, flute

                                                     Brasil Guitar Duo

                                                      (Avie 2196)

 

  Elmer Bernstein: Guitar Concerto    Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                                          London Symphony Orchestra

                                                          Elmer Bernstein, conductor

                                                           (EMI/Angel 7243-5-56859)

 

    Traditional: Wondrous Love         Jerry Dadap, Jr., guitar

                                                          (Dadap Records 1)

 

  Kapsberger: Four PiecesToccata Seconda Arpeggiata    Rolf Lislevand, theorbo

                                                   (Astree 8515)                                                  

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Brasil Guitar Duo member Douglas Lora and music by Kapsberger, Bach, Elmer Bernstein, and Jerry Dadap’s arrangement of a traditional Appalachian Hymn tune.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-04 Judicael Perroy, John Williams, Ronn McFarlane Interviews, Bach, Villa-Lobos, Dowland & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with French guitarist Judicael Perroy, John Williams, lutenist Ronn McFarlane and music by Telemann, Bach, John Williams, Belgian composer Boris Gacquere, Villa-Lobos, American composer Joseph Williams, and Dowland, with additional performances by Eduardo Isaac, Locango (Catherine Struys, Wouter Vercruysse, Benoit Ducene), Fabio Zanon, Texas Guitar Quartet, and Ayreheart.

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

CGA! Welcomes Northwest Public Broadcasting’s additional weekly broadcast: Saturdays at Noon (in addition to their Sundays at 9:00am airing).

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 24, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-04 Judicael Perroy, John Williams, Ronn McFarlane Interviews, Bach, Villa-Lobos, Dowland, & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Telemann: Fantasia #5              Eduardo Isaac, guitar

                                                     (GHA “Baroque” 2017)                                                  

 

  Interview: Judicael Perroy: “My main inspiration is to try…    … is for me really perfect, perfect model.”

 

  Bach: Partita#2: Capriccio         Judicael Perroy, guitar

                                                      (Naxos “J.S. Bach:Transcriptions for Guitar” 2012)

 

  Interview: John Williams: “Having performed a lot of new music…   … it’s inhibited me from doing anything.”

 

  John Williams: Aeolian Suite        John Williams, guitar

                                                       Studio Orchestra

                                                         William Goodchild, conductor

                                                         (Sony Classical “The Guitarist” 1998)

 

    Boris Gacquere: Apricale            Locango

                                   (Catherine Struys, guitar, Wouter Vercruysse, cello, Benoit Ducene, guitar)

                                                        (A Croch Note Productions 2017 “The GCM Project”)

 

  Villa-Lobos: Introduction to the Choros  Fabio Zanon, guitar

                                                                Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra

                                                                John Neschling, conductor

                                                    (BIS “The Complete Choros” 2009)

 

  Joseph Williams: London Fog: Scenes from Hitchcock’s The Lodger: “A Stranger in the Home”

                                                         Texas Guitar Quartet

                                                        (TXGQ “Icon” 2017)

 

  Interview: Ronn McFarlane: Really, the point of the whole album… … sound like folk tunes in our arrangements.”

 

  Dowland: Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe, Mr. Dowland’s Midnight, Mr. George Whitehead’s Alman

                                                        Ayreheart

                                                        (Sono Luminous “Barley Moon” 2016)                                                

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with French guitarist Judicael Perroy, John Williams, lutenist Ronn McFarlane and music by Telemann, Bach, John Williams, Belgian composer Boris Gacquere, Villa-Lobos, American composer Joseph Williams, and Dowland, with additional performances by Eduardo Isaac, Locango (Catherine Struys, Wouter Vercruysse, Benoit Ducene), Fabio Zanon, Texas Guitar Quartet, and Ayreheart.

 

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! Welcomes Northwest Public Broadcasting’s additional weekly broadcast: Saturdays at Noon (in addition to their Sundays at 9:00am airing).

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-06 Callum Henshaw, Juanito Pascual Interviews, Haydn, Castelnuovo-Tedesco & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Australian guitarist Callum Henshaw, who has recorded music by Napoleon Coste and Nigel Westlake and American flamenco guitarist Juanito Pascual, who is featured in Arturo Carelus’s score to the film “Chiamatemi Francesco” (Call me Francesco), and music by Haydn, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Claude Bolling.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 7, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-06 Callum Henshaw, Juanito Pascual Interviews, Haydn, Castelnuovo-Tedesco & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Fandango en Rondeau  Brasil Guitar Duo

                                                                   (Naxos 8.50778)

 

Interview: Callum Henshaw: “I chose that piece because…  … an important work to me now.”

Coste: Le Depart                                       Callum Henshaw, guitar

                                                                 (Callum Henshaw 2015)

 

  Haydn: Quartet in D                                 David Leisner, guitar

                                                                  Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

                                                                  Galanterie

                                                                (Profil 881488501223)

 

Interview: Callum Henshaw: “That particular piece is…  … 600 millisecond later.”

Nigel Westlake: Hinchinbrook Riffs         Callum Henshaw, guitar

                                                                 (Callum Henshaw 2015)

 

Interview: Juanito Pascual: “The move to LA is really exciting…  … a number of the tracks.”

Arturo Cardelus: “Chiamatemi Francesco”

                                    Bergoglio,

                                    Esther

                                     Where Are You From    Juanito Pascual, guitar

                                                                            Budapest Art Orchestra

                                                                            Peter Pejtsik, conductor

                                                                      (Taodue 2015)

 

 

  Bolling: Concerto: Hispanic Dance                    Alexandre Lagoya, guitar

                                                                           Claude Bolling trio

                                                                (Milan 74321 16081-2)

 

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

-------------------------------------------------------

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Australian guitarist Callum Henshaw, who has recorded music by Napoleon Coste and Nigel Westlake and American flamenco guitarist Juanito Pascual, who is featured in Arturo Carelus’s score to the film “Chiamatemi Francesco” (Call me Francesco), and music by Haydn, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Claude Bolling.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-07 Leo Brouwer Interview & World Premiere, Sor, Bartok, & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Leo Brouwer and the world premiere recording of his piece for guitar quartet and orchestra, “Gismontiiana” based on the music of Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti, and music by Fernando Sor, Bela Bartok, and a Scottish folk dance setting by Kennedy-Fraser.

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 TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 14, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-07 Brouwer Premiere & Interview, Sor, Bartok & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Marjory Kennedy-Fraser: Hebridean Dance   Paul Galbraith, 8-string guitar   (1:37)

                                                                   (Delos 2001 “In Every Lake the Moon shines Full”)

 

Sor: Souvernir of Russia                        Angela Ferreiro, Iago Reigosa, guitars (14:01)

                                                                 (Nar Classical 2017 “Fernando Sor: Arte en Parte”)

 

Interview: Leo Brouwer: “My music in general is not a music with a circular structure, the arc form…   … I compose in the Oriental, African, Hindu [way] which is not reflected exactly in Occidental culture, it’s something that develops, goes up and then comes back, and then grows up like the Hindu Raga.”

 

  Leo Brouwer: Gismontiiana                EOS Guitar Quartet  (34:07)

                                                             Musikkollegium Winterthur

                                                            Leo Brouwer, conductor 

                                                             (EOS GQ 2018 “Live at Winterthur”)

 

  Bartok: For Children (selections)      Paul Galbraith, 8-string guitar (3:53)

                                                          (Delos 2001 “In Every Lake the Moon shines Full”)

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

-------------------------------------------------------

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Leo Brouwer and the world premiere recording of his piece for guitar quartet and orchestra, “Gismontiiana” based on the music of Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti, and music by Fernando Sor, Bela Bartok, and a Scottish folk dance setting by Kennedy-Fraser.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-08 Grieg, Granados, Grisoni, Glass

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Grieg, Granados, Renato Grisoni, and Philip Glass.

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 TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 21, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-08 Grieg, Granados, Grisoni, Glass

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Grieg: Norwegian folk songs                   Paul Galbraith, 8-string guitar  (3:43)

                                                                   (Delos 2001 “In Every Lake the Moon shines Full”)

 

Granados: Valses Poeticos                      Anabel Montesinos, guitar (9:14)

                                                                 (Naxos 2017 “50th Anniversary Pittaluga Competition”)

 

  Grisoni: Fantasia, “Cantico di Sora Luna”  Mario Taio, guitar  (25:20)

                                                              Swiss-Italian Orchestra

                                                            Christian Scheid, conductor 

                                                             (Da Vinci Classics 2018 “Cantigo di Sora Luna”)

 

  Glass: Mishima Quartet                     Matthew McAllister, Allan Neave,

                                                             Uros Baric, Sasha Savaloni, guitars (16:32)

                                                            (Baros Records 2017 “American Collection”)

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

-------------------------------------------------------

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Grieg, Granados, Renato Grisoni, and Philip Glass.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-09- Kermit Poling Interview & Concerto, Paganini, Giuliani, Hans Bruderl

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2018 interview with composer/conducto/broadcaster Kermit Poling, and his Guitar Concerto #1, “Concierto de Chiaro,” and music by Paganini, Giuliani, and Hans Bruderl.

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 TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: February 28, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-09- Kermit Poling Interview & Concerto, Paganini, Giuliani, Hans Bruderl

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                     (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Giuliani: Sonata op.15: Allegro Spiritoso   Tatyana Rhyzkova, guitar  (5:24)

                                                                   (“Expressions” ASR Aktiv Sound Records 2018)

 

  Paganini: Sonata Concertata op. 61       Chao-Lun Lu, cello (12:32)

                                                                    Rene Izquierdo, guitar

                                                                 (“Arpeggione” StreetVoice 2017)

 

  Interview: Kermit Poling: “Stylistically…    … come full circle.”

 

    Poling: Guitar Concerto #1 “Concierto de Chiaro”  Giovanni de Chiaro, guitar (25:15)

                                                                                  London Symphony Orchestra     

                                                                                     Kermit Poling, conductor 

                                                                                 (“Polling: Orchestral Works” Centaur 2017)

 

  Giuliani: 3 Etudes                              Lucio Matarazzo, guitar (3:25)

                                                             (“Giuliani: Selected Studies vol. 2” UT Orpheus 2014)

 

  Hans Bruderl: Octopus                      Canadian Guitar Quartet (7:19)

                                                            (“Mappa Mundi” Atma Classique 2017)

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2018 interview with composer/conducto/broadcaster Kermit Poling, and his Guitar Concerto #1, “Concierto de Chiaro,” and music by Paganini, Giuliani, and Hans Bruderl.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

 

18-13 Berta Rojas, Chad Ibison Interviews, Mozart and more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2017 interview with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas and a 2018 interview with American guitarist Chad Ibison, who talks about his experience at the Jo Ann Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, and music by Mozart, Brouwer, Bellinati, Coste, and Kristina Avila.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: March 28, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  Berta Rojas, Chad Ibison Interviews, Mozart & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Manuel Saumwell:  La Quejosita   Leo Brouwer, guitar  (1:29)

                                                    (“Panorama de la Guitar” Erato Records 2018)

 

Mozart: Symphony #28 in C, K 200  Amsterdam Guitar Trio (17:22)

                          (“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Amsterdam Guitar Grio” 2017, Sino records)                                                   

 

Interview: Chad Ibison: “Well, anytime you do a competition…  … I feel like the competition itself made me a better player.”

Brouwer: Concierto Elegiaco             Chad Ibison, guitar  (23:34)

                                                              Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

                                                             JoAnn Falletta, conductor

                                                      (“Stars of the Guitar” Beau Fleuve Records 2015)

 

Kristina Avila: Vincent’s Night          Kristen Walligora, guitar (3:33)

                                                       

 

Coste: Etudes                              Jeffrey McFadden, guitar

                                                      (Coste: Guitar works, Vol. 4,  Naxos 2000)  

 

Interview: Berta Rojas: “I love ‘Jongo,’ I enjoy working with my students on the piece…    … this album pays tribute to great figures of  Brazilian music and Paulo Bellinati is one of them.”

 

  Paulo Bellinatti: Jongo                           Berta Rojas, guitar (5:33)

                                                              (“Felicidade” OnMusic 2017)

 

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2017 interview with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas and a 2018 interview with American guitarist Chad Ibison, who talks about his experience at the Jo Ann Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, and music by Mozart, Brouwer, Bellinati, Coste, and Kristina Avila.  

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

18-14 William Kanengiser Interview, LAGQ

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with the brilliantly witty and extraordinarily talented William Kanengiser of the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, who discusses their latest CD, “New Renaissance,” and demonstrates his comedic gift and talent for guitar-celebrity impersonations.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 4, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 18-14 William Kanengiser Interview, LAGQ ****

Title:  18-14 William Kanengiser Interview, LAGQ

Total length: 58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude        Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Interview excerpt: Bill Kanengiser: “It’s got this slightly redundant title, ‘New Renaissance,’ …   …so I made a 16 movement suite of the greatest hits of 1605.”

 

    Anon, arranged Kanengiser: Music from the time of Cervantes     LAGQ

                                                                   (LAGQ Records 0315 )

 

      Interview excerpt: Bill Kanengiser: “My folks said I said my first pun when I was about 6 years old…   … well thanks, it was nice coming in!”

 

 

  Sergio Assad: Interchange              LAGQ

                                                           Delaware Symphony Orchestra

                                                           David Amado, conductor

                                                             (Telarc 31754)

 

Interview excerpt: Bill Kanengiser: “What I’d like to do is become a chef, for fun…   … I think we’re done, let’s have lunch!”

 

 

Traditional, arr. Scott Tennant:  Three French Chanson       LAGQ

                                                            (LAGQ Records 0315 )

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with the brilliantly witty and extraordinarily talented William Kanengiser of the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, who discusses their latest CD, “New Renaissance,” and demonstrates his comedic gift and talent for guitar-celebrity impersonations.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 for Most Licensed Series

18-15 Lukasz Kuropacewski, Matt Denman Interviews, Ravel, Giuliani, & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 2016 interviews with Polish guitar virtuoso Lukasz Kuropaczewski, and Oklahoma City University guitar professor Matthew Denman, and music by Giuliani, Fasch, Ravel, Sanz, Antonio Jose and more.

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 for Most Licensed Series

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 11, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-15 Lukasz Kuropaczewski, Mat Denman Interviews

Program ID#  18-15

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                            Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Giuliani: Sonatina in A                            Alirio Diaz, guitar

                                                                   (IDIS Records 6712)

 

  Fasch: Concerto in d minor                    Slava Grigoryan, guitar

                                                                Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

                                                                 Benjamin Northey, conductor

                                                                     (ABC Classics 2012)

 

  Interview: Lukasz Kuropaczewski: “I think it’s one of the greatest sonatas we have for guitar…  … spent so much time learning it.”

 

  Antonio Jose: Sonata                             Lukasz Kuropaczewski, guitar

                                                                  (Polish Radio 1572)(2012)

 

  Interview: Matthew Denman: “Classen School of Advanced Studies is a high school and middle school…   … those have been really powerful stories for me.”

 

    Ravel: Quartet: II                                   tetrauQuartet

                                                                 (live recording 2016)

 

  Sanz: Canarios                                      Julian Bream, guitar

                                                                  (RCA Records 33705)

                        

  CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

-------------------------------------------------------

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 2016 interviews with Polish guitar virtuoso Lukasz Kuropaczewski, and Oklahoma City University guitar professor Matthew Denman, and music by Giuliani, Fasch, Ravel, Sanz, Antonio Jose and more.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

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18-16 Leo Brouwer, Berta Rojas, Julio Reyes Interviews, Bach, Piazzolla, and more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2000 interview with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses the hand injury which ended his performing career, a 2015 with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, and an interview/live studio performance by Paraguayan-American guitarist-composer Julio Reyes, and music by Bach, Weiss, Piazzolla, and more, including a concerto for theorbo by Kropfgans.

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DT: April 16, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE 18-16 Leo Brouwer, Berta Rojas, Julio Reyes Interviews ***

Total length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

    Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

   Weiss: Sonata in a minor: Courante              Christopher Wilke, Baroque lute                                                                                                                                       (Wilke 90474-54098)

   Kropfgans: Concerto in c minor                   Lutz Kirchhoff, theorbo

                                                     Giuliano Carmignola, violin

                                                     Francesco Galligioni, cello

                                                     (Sony Vivarte 51351)                                           

   

   Interview: Leo Brouwer: “The question is how I stopped playing…   … that’s it, that’s the reason.”

   Bach: Chaconne                                 Leo Brouwer, guitar

                                                      (Frame Records 1999)

 

   Interview: Berta Rojas: “The project came about …   … the rich history that tango music has.”

   Piazzolla: L’Histoire du Tango                    Berta Rojas, guitar

                                                     Camerata Bariloche

                                                     (Onmusic Recordings 888295266895)

 

   Interview: Julio Reyes: “That piece is called ‘Onward to Paradise’…   … was one of my mentors.”

   Julio Reyes: Onward to Paradise                 Julio Reyes, guitar

                                                     (live studio performance)

 

   Homero Manze: Sur                              Berta Rojas, guitar

                                                     Camerata Bariloche

                                                     (Onmusic Recordings 888295266895)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a 2000 interview with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, who discusses the hand injury which ended his performing career, a 2015 with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, and an interview/live studio performance by Paraguayan-American guitarist-composer Julio Reyes, and music by Bach, Weiss, Piazzolla, and more, including a concerto for theorbo by Kropfgans.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 for Most Licensed Series

18-17 400 Years of Popular Music, Manuel Barreco, Mark Cruz, Kaare Norge Interviews

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 400 years of popular music and interviews with Manuel Barrueco, Mark Cruz, and Kaare Norge.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 25, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 18-17  400 Years of Popular Music, Manuel Barrueco, Mark Cruz, Kaare Norge Interviews 

Total Length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:      Prelude                                               Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                            (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 Byrd:  The Woods So Wild                                 Julian Bream, lute

                                                                            (RCA 61587)

 

 Narvaez: Guardame las Vacas                          Konrad Ragossnig, lute

                                                                            (DG Arkiv 4477272)

 

 Falla: 3 Popular Spanish Songs                         Sharon O’Connor, cello

                                                                             Marc Teicholz, guitar

                                                                             (Menus and Music 6)

 

 Llobet: The Merchant’s Daughter                        Mosaic Guitar Quartet

                                                                             (LAMD 30)

 

Popp: Love is Blue                                                 Leo Brouwer, guitar

                                                                                (live recording, Havana 1978)

                                                                                (Frame 9721)

 

Interview: Kaare Norge: “First of all, if you want to do a Beatles record... ...just the force of the melody.”
Lennon/McCartney: Here, There, Everywhere          Kaare Norge, guitar
                                Michelle, Blackbird                    (EMI-Denmark 2011)

 

 Interview: Mark Cruz: “That whole CD is influenced by my brother Edgar….  … transcription of the original.”

   Simon: Bridge Over Troubled Water                     Mark Cruz, guitar

                                                                                (MAC 78572-21532)

 

Interview: Mark Cruz:”Yeah, that’s an interesting question…  … that would be awesome!”

 Page/Plant: The Rain Song                                   Mark Cruz, guitar

                                                                                (MAC 78572-21532)

 

Interview: Mark Cruz:”Everlong! Because I love the Foo Fighters… … it’s just cool.”

Grohl: Everlong                                   Mark Cruz, guitar

                                                                                (MAC 78572-21532)

 

Interview excerpt: Manuel Barrueco:  “I’ve done a lot of work with the King’s Singers… … it seemed an obvious thing to do”.

Lennon/McCartney/Brouwer: Eleanor Rigby            Manuel Barrueco, guitar

                                                                                  London Symphony Orchestra

                                                                                  Jeremy Lubbock, cond.

                                                                                   (EMI 55228)                                                                                

 

 CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 400 years of popular music and interviews with Manuel Barrueco, Mark Cruz, and Kaare Norge.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 for Most Licensed Series

 

18-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré tribute, Interviews: David Russell, Richard Stover, Jack Silver

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

In honor of the 133rd anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan genius guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (May 5, 1885- August 7, 1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré. Producer's note: This edition has special importance to me: In 2010, I was invited to serve as a US State Dept Cultural Envoy to Paraguay because of my work championing Agustin Barrios Mangoré. My blog about the 12-day concert and media goodwill tour led to a commission to write a screenplay about his life, "Mangoré." In March 2017, thanks to the heroic efforts of some dear and well-connected friends, I had the stunning opportunity to speak at length with Clint Eastwood about Mangoré. Stay tuned, and Viva Mangoré!

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 2, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute

Title: 17-18 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute   

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #4              David Russell, guitar
                                                                (Telarc 803732)

Interview: David Russell: “In El Salvador, where he died . . . . . .everybody loved him, all that people that knew him.”

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #3              David Russell, guitar
                                                                 (Telarc 803732)

Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral: III             Denis Azabagic, guitar
                                                                 (Naxos 8.554555)

Interview:
Richard Stover: “When I first began investigating Barrios. . . . . .I never got to get back to her or anything.”

Barrios Mangoré: Julia Florida                   Duo Roldan
                                                                  (Rene Izquierdo 2012)

Interview: Jack Silver: “Well, poor Barrios, there was a lot of racism. He had a lot of Indian features. . . . . Oh yeah, he could play.”

Barrios Mangoré: Romanza  Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                    (Do Re Mi Records 7955)

Barrios Mangoré: Maxixe, Choro da Saudade, Las Abejas   Celil Refik Kaya, guitar
                                                                     (Celil Refik Kaya)

Barrios Mangoré: Prelude in Cminor, Danza Paraguaya Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet, saxophone
                                                                                         Berta Rojas, guitar
                                                                        (OnMusic 11245)

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo                             Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                         (Atlanta Records 65392)

Barrios Mangoré: Mazurka Apassionata           Enno Vorhorst, guitar
                                                                          (Challenge Records 72601)

Barrios Mangoré: Gloria's Prelude (Preludio Saudade) Tony Morris, guitar
                                                                                      (Madoc Films 2014)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

In honor of the 133rd anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (May 5, 1885- August 7, 1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Celebrates 20 years of national distribution and is broadcast each week on over 200 stations internationally.

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX (Public Radio Exchange)’s 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards:

#1 Most Licensed Producer (Tony Morris), and

#2 for Most Licensed Series (Classical Guitar Alive!)

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18-20 Leo Brouwer Book of Signs, Brasil Guitar Duo Interview & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an April 2018 interview with the Brasil Guitar Duo members Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora, who discuss their world premiere recording of Leo Brouwer’s 1st concerto for 2 guitars, “Book of Signs,” and 2018 recordings by the Montenegrin Guitar Duo, Oscar Caceres, and Kaare Norge.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 15, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-20 Leo Brouwer Book of Signs, Brasil Guitar Duo Interview

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                        Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                 (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 Bach : English Suite 4: Prelude              Montenegrin Guitar Duo

                                                                 (“Bach: English Suites 4-6” Naxos 2018)

 

 Interview: Joao Luiz & Douglas Lora: “That’s a very interesting piece…   … it’s very different from his other concertos for guitar, for sure.”

 

 Leo Brouwer: The Book of Signs          Brasil Guitar Duo

                                                               Delaware Symphony Orchestra

                                                               David Amado, conductor

                                                               (“Brouwer, L: Book of Signs” Naxos 2018)

 

 Mudarra: Fantasia 10                           Oscar Caceres, guitar

                                                               (“Panorama de la Guitare” Erato 2018)

                                                           

 Kaare Norge: Danza del Alegria           Kaare Norge, guitar

                                                               (Kaare Norge 2018)

                        

 CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

-------------------------------------------------------

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an April 2018 interview with the Brasil Guitar Duo members Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora, who discuss their world premiere recording of Leo Brouwer’s 1st concerto for 2 guitars, “Book of Signs,” and 2018 recordings by the Montenegrin Guitar Duo, Oscar Caceres, and Kaare Norge.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

18-21 Duo Tenebroso Interview, Concierto de Petrer Premiere & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an April 2018 interview with the Portland-based Duo Tenebroso’s Kristin Walligora and David Franzen, who discuss music from their latest cd, “Portrait,” and how Kristen Walligora came to work as a court reporter. Also featured on the program is the world premiere recording of Simone Ianarelli’s “Concierto de Petrer.”

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 23, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-21 Duo Tenebroso Interview, Concierto de Petrer Premiere & more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                        Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                 (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 Vivaldi: L’estro Armonico: Allegro           Duo Tenebroso

                                                                (“Portrait” Duo Tenebroso, 2018, 3:10)

 

 Interview: Kristen Walligora: “ For me, I think it’s …   … kind of reminiscent of Frederique Chopin.”

 

Victor Carbajo: Humana Primavera: I, II  Duo Tenebroso

                                                                  (“Portrait” Duo Tenebroso, 2018, 5:16)

                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

 Simone Ianarelli: Concierto de Petrer    Alex Garrobe, guitar

                                                                Murcia Symphony Orchestra

                                                                Diego Naser, conductor

                                               (“In Memoriam, a Jose Tomas” 2018 JSM Guitar Records 42:16)

                                                               

Interview: Kristen Walligora: “Well, I actually did teach …   … works those equally as well as the others.”

 Sergio Assad: Jobiniana #1               Duo Tenebroso

                                                                (“Portrait” Duo Tenebroso, 2018, 5:41)

                        

 CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an April 2018 interview with the Portland-based Duo Tenebroso’s Kristin Walligora and David Franzen, who discuss music from their latest cd, “Portrait,” and how Kristen Walligora came to work as a court reporter. Also featured on the program is the world premiere recording of Simone Ianarelli’s “Concierto de Petrer.”

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

18-23 Bach, Mozart, Bellinati Premiere, Brasil Guitar Duo Interview & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s program features music by Bach, Mozart, and a 2018 interview with Brasil Guitar Duo members Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora, who speak about world premiere recording of Paulo Bellinati’s “Concerto Caboclo.” Rounding out the program is Spanish Baroque guitar music by Gaspar Sanz, ending with the ebullient piece, “Little Concert Music” by Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: June 5, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   18-23 Bach, Mozart, Bellinati Premiere, Brasil Guitar Duo Interview & more

Total length:58:57

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Bach: Prelude, BWV 998          Manuel Barrueco, guitar (2:34)

                                                  (“55 Classical Guitar Hits” Warner Music Group 2018)

 

 Mozart: Sonata for 2 pianos, K448  Amsterdam Guitar Trio (24:51)

                                                (“WA Mozart” Amsterdam Guitar Trio 2017)

 

 Interview: Douglas Lora and Joao Luiz: “That’s one thing…    … and sounds amazing.”

 

 Paulo Bellinati: Concerto Caboclo  Brasil Guitar Duo (19:09)

                                                        Delaware Symphony Orchestra

                                                        David Amado, conductor

                                                        (“Book of Signs” Naxos Records 2018)

 

  Sanz: 4 pieces                          Alberto Mesirca, baroque guitar  (4:28)

                                                  (“Gaspar Sanz” Brilliant Classics 2018)

 

  Ferenc Farkas: Piccola Musica da Concerto: I.  EOS Guitar Quartet (7:10)

                                                        (“Piccola Musica da Concerto” EOSGQ 1990)

                                                        

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features music by Bach, Mozart, and a 2018 interview with Brasil Guitar Duo members Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora, who speak about world premiere recording of Paulo Bellinati’s “Concerto Caboclo.” Rounding out the program is Spanish Baroque guitar music by Gaspar Sanz, ending with the ebullient piece, “Little Concert Music” by Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

 

18-28 Rossini, Walton, Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Interview & more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with Rory Russell and Vasilis Bessas of Britain’s Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, who discuss music from their Chandos Records CD “Aspects,” and music by Rossini, William Walton, Clarice Assad, John Brunning, and more.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: July 11, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-28 Rossini, Walton, Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Interview, & more

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Interview: Rory Russell: Yes, the title was…     … like to do in our concert programs.”

Rossini: Sinfonia, Italiana in Algiers  Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                   (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

  Walton: 5 Bagatelles      Christopher Parkening, guitar

                                          Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

                                         Andrew Litton, conductor

                                         (EMI Classics 1993  “Rodrigo, Walton”)

 

   Interview: Vasilis Bessas: “John Brunning is a musician…   …finish a disc with that.”

 

  John Brunning: Elegy      Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                   (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

   Clarice Assad: Danzas Nativas  Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                   (Chandos 2009 “Spirit of Brazil”)

 

 

 

   Interview: Rory Russell: “Well, the Punch Brothers…    … we’d love to revisit again in the future.”  

 

Carl Mikael Marin/Punch Brothers:   Flippen (the flip)Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

                                                       Soon or Never

                                                        Flippen (reprise)

                                   (Chandos 2016 “Aspects”)

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with Rory Russell and Vasilis Bessas of Britain’s Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, who discuss music from their Chandos Records CD “Aspects,” and music by Rossini, William Walton, Clarice Assad, John Brunning, and more.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

18-29 When Politics and Music Collide! Music from Elizabeth's England, Franco's Spain, Castro's Cuba/Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife has shaped 400 years of music history from the 16th Century to 20th Century, and features interviews with lutenists Paul O’Dette, Ronn McFarlane, and guitarists Pepe Romero and Manuel Barrueco.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: July 18, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  18-29 When Politics and Music Collide: Music from Queen Elizabeth’s England, Franco’s Spain, and Castro’s Cuba/Interviews: Paul O’Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco

 

Total Length: 58:57

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 56:09

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Prelude                                               Los Romeros, guitars

                                                                       (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 Dowland: Mrs. White’s Thing, P50                Paul O’Dette, lute

                                                                       (Harmonia Mundi 907160)

 

 Interview: Paul O’Dette: “We don’t know much about his early life …   … he saw a new musical  style taking over, of which he didn’t approve.”

 

 Dowland: 2 Galliards, P104, P35                  Paul O’Dette, lute

                                                                       (Harmonia Mundi 907160)

 

Interview: Ronn McFarlane: “Catholics were not persecuted to the extent that Protestants were duing Bloody Mary’s reign. At the same time, Catholics were in a lot of disfavor during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And for William Byrd to hold this position that he did, at the Royal Chapel, creating music for Queen Elizabeth, devotional music …    … He must have been very much valued by Queen Elizabeth.”

 

 Byrd: Galliard                                                 Ronn McFarlane, lute

                                                                        (Dorian 90186)

 

 Interview: Pepe Romero: “Because my father was in Malaga, he fought against Franco’s forces. He was in a group of artists and musicians that were very liberal thinkers that wanted freedom for Spain, and that whose ideas were the very opposite of what Franco and the Fascist government stood for. Therefore, many of them had a much worse fate, like Garcia Lorca, Antonio Jose. And my father was just prevented from leaving Spain …    … and he performed magnificently-inspired concerts for us.”

 

 Celedonio Romero: Concerto de Malaga     Pepe Romero, guitar

                                                                       Acad. St. Martin-in-the-Fields

                                                                       Neville Marriner, cond.

                                                                       (Philips 411-133)

 

 Interview: Manuel Barrueco: “Whenever you talk about Cuba, almost invariably people think of politics …      there was this euphoric feeling, just being here and sensing that there was a future, in a way. And that future wasn’t being afraid of my parents being picked up by the police or something because of having said something against the government.”

 

 Brouwer: Danza de las Diosas Negras         Manuel Barrueco, guitar

                                                                       (EMI 56757)

 

Michael Daugherty: Bay of Pigs: Anthem         Manuel Barrueco, guitar

                                                                         Cuarteto LatinoAmerica

                                                                         (Tonar Music 2008)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife has shaped 400 years of music history from the 16th Century to 20th Century, and features interviews with lutenists Paul O’Dette, Ronn McFarlane, and guitarists Pepe Romero and Manuel Barrueco.

 

The program begins with music of Elizabethan lutenist-composer John Dowland (1563-1626). In an interview with lutenist Paul O’Dette, he discusses how Dowland was implicated in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, and why Dowland failed to attain a major court position until very late in life.

 

Lutenist Ronn McFarlane discusses how one of Dowland’s contemporaries, William Byrd (1543-1623) fared much better as the head of Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Chapel. Despite being fined for being a practicing Catholic in Protestant England, Byrd held his royal post until the end of his life.

 

Pepe Romero tells how his father Celedonio Romero(1913-1996) was prevented by Fascist dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1892-1975) from concertizing outside of Spain, due to Celedonio Romero’s participation in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. The Romero family immigrated to the USA in 1957, and then performed world-wide as Los Romeros Guitar Quartet. Pepe Romero performs his father’s flamenco-based work, “Concierto de Malaga”.

 

Manuel Barrueco’s family also immigrated to the United States to escape the oppression. In this 1998 interview, Barrueco discusses his EMI CD titled “Cuba!”, which he dedicated to many Cubans who died in the Florida Straits while trying to escape to the United States. He also discusses his experiences as a child in Cuba, and the repercussions of being branded a “worm”, or non-communist, while awaiting government permission to emigrate. The program closes with “Dance of the Black Goddesses” by Leo Brouwer and the Anthem from Michael Daugherty’s piece “Bay of Pigs” for guitar quintet.

 

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! celebrates 20 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

19-21 Beethoven and his Contemporaries, Isaac Bustos Interview

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s program features music by Beethoven and two of his contemporaries, Ferdinando Carulli, and Mauro Giuliani, and an interview with Isaac Bustos of the Texas Guitar Quartet.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 23, 2019

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 19-21 Beethoven and his Contemporaries, Isaac Bustos Interview

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS: 

Giuliani: Fughetta                           Marco Tamayo, guitar (2:31)

                       “Mauro Giuliani Guitar Music (Naxos 2005)

 

 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, op.13, “Pathetique”     SoloDuo  (18:00)

                             “Beethoven for Two” (Decca 2019)

 

Giuliani: Guitar Concerto #3, op. 70: II. Andantino    Angel Romero, guitar  (7:05)

                       English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, conductor

                       “Giuliani: Guitar Concertos No. 1&3” (Warner Classics 2012)

 

  Carulli: Grand Duo op. 86  Sonja Prunnbauer, guitar (16:23)

                                             Robert Hill, fortepiano

      “Ferdinando Carulli: Works for guitar and fortepiano”  (MDG Scene 1995)

 

  Interview: Isaac Bustos: “You know, I’ve loved this piece…   … such a beautiful piece; very effective.”Beethoven: Egmont Overture                       Texas Guitar Quartet  (9:09)

                     “Red” (Texas Guitar Quartet 2012)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features music by Beethoven and two of his contemporaries, Ferdinando Carulli, and Mauro Giuliani, and an interview with Isaac Bustos of the Texas Guitar Quartet.

 

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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! celebrates 21 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations.

 

FUNDRAISER EDITION is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series

19-36 Beethoven, Bela Fleck and more

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Beethoven and more, and interviews with Grammy-winning banjo player/arranger/composer Bela Fleck, and guitarist Michael Anthony Nigro.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: September 5, 2019

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE 19-35 Beethoven, Bela Fleck, and more

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

    Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                         (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Interview: Michael Anthony Nigro: “I came across this beautiful piece…  … I immediately fell in love with the music and his compositions.”

   Jose Luis Merlin: Insectos, Pajaros, y Nubes      Michael Anthony Nigro, guitar

                                                      (Balcon Records 9120017626077)

   Loris Tjeknavorian: Guitar Concerto “Zareh”      Iakovos Kolanian, guitar

                                                     Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra

                                                     Loris Tjeknavorian, conductor

                                                       (Tjeknavorian 885767766860)                                           

   

Interview: Bela Fleck: “What I did, is I just got tons of cds… …from a classical perspective.”                               

   Beethoven: Variations on ‘God Save the King’     Bela Fleck, banjo

                                                      John Williams, guitar

                                                      (Sony Classical 89610)

 

   Gallardo del Rey: California Suite                  Irina Kulikova, guitar

                                                       (Naxos 8.572717)

 

   Gaspar Sanz: Sarabanda, La Tarantella           Pierre Pitzl, baroque guitar

                                                      Private Musicke

                                                      (Accent 24239)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Beethoven and more, and interviews with Grammy-winning banjo player/arranger/composer Bela Fleck, and guitarist Michael Anthony Nigro.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 21 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations, and is free to all stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

21-03 Rodrigo, Beethoven, Guastavino, Pujol, Clarice Assad

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Rodrigo, Beethoven, Guastavino, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Clarice Assad.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 18, 2021

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  21-03 Rodrigo, Beethoven, Guastavino, Pujol, Clarice Assad

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

   Rodrigo: Fandango                John Williams, guitar

                      “Rodrigo” (Sony Classical 1999) (3:42)

 

  Beethoven: Trio Woo 38     Daniel Wolff, guitar, Camilo Simoes, violin, Mileni Aliverti, cello

                       “Beehoven for Guitar”   (Tratore 2020) (18:17)

 

  Maximo Diego Pujol: Luminosa Buenos Aires   Bandini-Chiacchiaretta, Duo

                                                                          I Musici di Parma 

                   “Luminosa Buenos Aires”      (Concerto Records 2009)   (20:56)

 

  Traditional, arr. Llobet: The Merchant’s Daugther           Mosaic Guitar Quartet

                     “Mosaic” (Ars Harmonica 1997) (1:50)

 

  Guastavino: 3 Popular Songs         Stefano Cardi, guitar, Enrico Pieranunzi, piano

                   “American Music for guitar & piano” (Brilliant Classics 2020) (6:26)

 

  Clarice Assad: Last Song   Kevin Loh, guitar

                     “Kevin Loh, Guitar”   (KLG 2020)  (3:53)

                                                               

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Rodrigo, Beethoven, Guastavino, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Clarice Assad.

 

FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 23 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 250 stations, and is free to all stations

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

21-15 Bach, Beethoven, Macha’s “Christmas Concerto,” Kjell Marcussen, Dowland, Kapsberger

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Bach, Beethoven, Czech composer Otmar Macha, Dowland, arranged by David Chevallier, Norwegian composer Kjell Marcussen, and Kapsberger.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 13, 2021

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  21-15 Bach, Beethoven, Macha’s “Christmas Concerto,” Kjell Marcussen, Dowland, Kapsberger

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 5  Ljubomir Brabec, guitar

                                                  Virtuosi di Praga,

                                                                  Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

          “Bach, Weiss, Fasch & Handel” (Supraphon 1993) (10:13)

 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14 in C# Minor, op.27 “Moonlight”  Soloduo

           “Beethoven for Two”                        (Decca Records 2019)   (13:28)

 

Otmar Macha: Christmas Concerto      Ljubomir Brabec, guitar

                                                  Praque Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra,

                                                                  Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

          “Praque Guitar Concertos” (Supraphon 1996) (12:22)

 

Dowland (arr. D. Chevallier) Two Songs: The Willow Song, The Lowest Trees Have Tops  

            Anne Magouet, soprano, David Chevallier, 12-string guitar, Bruno Helstroffer, theorbo

             “Dowland- A Game of Mirrors” (Carpe Diem Records 2014) (8:41)

                                                               

Kjell Marcussen: Pavane for viola, cello, and guitar  Anders Clemens Oien, guitar, Duo Oktava

             Dedications: Music by Kjell Marcussen” (Duo Oktava 2017) (4:49)

 

Kapsberger: #2 Capona, #6 Canario              Rolf Lislevand Ensemble

   “Kapsberger Libro Quatro D’Intavolatura di Chitarone”  (Astree 1993) (5:19)

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Bach, Beethoven, Czech composer Otmar Macha, Dowland, arranged by David Chevallier, Norwegian composer Kjell Marcussen, and Kapsberger.

 

FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

Classical Guitar Alive! is now in its 24th year of national distribution, and airs each week on over 250 stations.

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

21-19 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute: Interviews: David Russell, Richard Stover, Jack Silver

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

In honor of the 136th anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (May 5, 1885- August 7, 1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: May 11, 2021

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  21-19 Agustin Barrios Mangoré Tribute: Interviews: David Russell, Richard Stover, Jack Silver

 

In Cue:  MUSIC IN  “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: MUSIC IN “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:   Prelude                         Los Romeros, guitars

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #4              David Russell, guitar
                                                                (Telarc 803732)

Interview: David Russell: “In El Salvador, where he died . . . . . .everybody loved him, all that people that knew him.”

Barrios Mangoré: Vals, op. 8 #3              David Russell, guitar
                                                                 (Telarc 803732)

Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral: III             Denis Azabagic, guitar
                                                                 (Naxos 8.554555)

Interview:
Richard Stover: “When I first began investigating Barrios. . . . . .I never got to get back to her or anything.”

Barrios Mangoré: Julia Florida                   Duo Roldan
                                                                  (Rene Izquierdo 2012)

Interview: Jack Silver: “Well, poor Barrios, there was a lot of racism. He had a lot of Indian features. . . . . Oh yeah, he could play.”

Barrios Mangoré: Romanza  Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                    (Do Re Mi Records 7955)

Barrios Mangoré: Maxixe, Choro da Saudade, Las Abejas   Celil Refik Kaya, guitar
                                                                     (Celil Refik Kaya)

Barrios Mangoré: Prelude in Cminor, Danza Paraguaya Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet, saxophone
                                                                                         Berta Rojas, guitar
                                                                        (OnMusic 11245)

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo                             Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
                                                                         (Atlanta Records 65392)

Barrios Mangoré: Mazurka Apassionata           Enno Vorhorst, guitar
                                                                          (Challenge Records 72601)

Barrios Mangoré: Gloria's Prelude (Preludio Saudade) Tony Morris, guitar
                                                                                      (Madoc Films 2014)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

In honor of the 136th anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (May 5, 1885- August 7, 1944), interviews with Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell, historic recordings producer Jack Silver, and Richard “Rico” Stover, author of “Six Silver Moonbeams,” a biography of Agustin Barrios Mangoré.

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FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

Classical Guitar Alive! is now in its 24th year of national distribution, and airs each week on over 250 stations.

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

21-23 Kaare Norge Artist Profile

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an artist profile and interview of Danish guitarist/composer/painter Kaare Norge, with music by Rodrigo, Bach, Carl Nielsen, Myers, Lennon/McCartney, and Kaare Norge.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: June 9, 2023

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  21-23 Kaare Norge Artist Profile

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude      Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Rodrigo: Zapateado   Kaare Norge, guitar

              “Bach, Rodrigo, Paganini”  (CBS 1989)  (2:59)

 

Bach: Keyboard Partita #4:Courante    Kaare Norge, guitar

             “Bach, Rodrigo, Paganini”  (CBS 1989)  (3:38)

 

Kaare Norge: Idyllic Spring   Kaare Norge, guitar, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

              “La Guitarra”  (Genlyd 1994) (7:46)

 

Interview: Kaare Norge: “It’s a cd containing only Carl Nielsen’s songs…   …perfect timing to release the record.”

 

 Carl Nielsen: Min Jesus Lad Mit Hjerte Fa      Kaare Norge, guitar

                       Skyggen Vi Vanke

                       “The Song is the Melody Carl Nielsen”  (Digidi 2015) (6:14)

 

Kaare Norge: Homage to Life                 Kaare Norge, guitar

                  “Classic” (Parlophone Denmark 2010) (3:42)

 

Norge: Cancion de Cuna    Kaare Norge, guitar

            “La Cumparsita”                (EMI Classics 2000) (4:07)

 

Stanley Myers: Cavatina       Kaare Norge, guitar, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

                “Kaare Norge Classic”  (CMC 1998) (3:35)

 

Interview: Kaare Norge: “Thank you very much…   … it helps each other, I think.”

Bent Fabricius: Duerne Flyver               Kaare Norge,

                                      “Variation” (Digidi 2018)  (1:54)

                           

Interview: Kaare Norge: “ Danza la Primavera is like flamenco without being ‘real’ flamenco…”

 

Norge: Danza la Primavera, Danza del Alegria            Kaare Norge, guitar

           “Variation”   (Digidi 2018), (6:58)

 

Interview Kaare Norge” It was an attempt to have the NorthEastern feeling… at the same time have a carried melody all through the piece.”

 

Kaare Norge: Oriental                                               Kaare Norge, guitar

              “Amoroso” (Digidi 2021) (3:25)

 

 

Traditional, arr. Norge: Scarborough Fair          Kaare Norge, guitar, Kontra Quartet

                              “Morning Has Broken” (CMC 1997)                (2:30)

 

 Interview: Kaare Norge: “First of all, if you want to do a Beatles record... ...just the force of the melody.”
Lennon/McCartney: Here, There, Everywhere          Kaare Norge, guitar
                                Michelle, Blackbird  “Beatles From My Heart    (Parlophone Denmark 2011) (8:23)

   

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

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This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an artist profile and interview of Danish guitarist/composer/painter Kaare Norge, with music by Rodrigo, Bach, Carl Nielsen, Myers, Lennon/McCartney, and Kaare Norge.  

 

FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

Classical Guitar Alive! is now in its 24th year of national distribution, and airs each week on over 250 stations.

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FALL FUNDRAISER 2021 CGA

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 46:24

This is a Fall Fundraiser episode of Classical Guitar Alive!, and features music and interviews that have received the highest listener engagement and positive response.

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TO: All Stations
FR: Tony Morris
DT: August 13, 2021
RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! Fall Fundraiser 2021

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...?another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"
Program Length: 46:24


INTRO: ********* INDEX TIME: 00:00 ************
Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude Los Romeros
(Philips 412-609)
PROGRAM BEGINS:
Mozart: Sonata K284: Allegro Henderson-Kolk Duo
(HK Duo)

OUTCUE: "... call with your pledge of financial support. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 6:23 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Maximo Diego Pujol: Luminosa Buenos Aires Bandini-Chiachiaretta Duo
I Musici di Parma
(CD 2052)

OUTCUE: "... now is a great to call with your pledge of financial support. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 13:47 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Interview: Brasil Guitar Duo: "...It's very hard to be a musician in Brasil in the beginning ..." "...everything we do."
Heraldo do Monte: Forrozim Brasil Guitar Duo
(Concert Artists Guild 820360130625)

OUTCUE: "... support this station that brings it to you each week.. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 19:34 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez: Adadio John Williams, guitar
Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Louis Fremaux, conductor
(Sony Classical 6687889)


OUTCUE: "... call now with your financial support. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 30:38 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Interview: Thomas Humphrey: "..Long time ago, on National Public Radio..." "...you can't develop that personality that I'm talking about..."

Assad: Natsu No Niwa Suite Assad Duo
(GHA 126-029)

OUTCUE: ".. call now with your pledge of financial support. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 37:09 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre Christopher Parkening, guitar
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor

OUTCUE: "... call now with your pledge of financial support. Here are the numbers to call..."

**** INDEX TIME (FROM BEGINNING OF INTRO) 44:57 **********

10 SECONDS RECORDED SILENCE (PAUSE PROGRAM, INSERT LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS)


CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a fundraiser program that is available to all stations.


Classical Guitar Alive! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

 

22-42 Bruce Holzman Tribute, 50 Years Guitar Professor at Florida State University

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to one of America’s most impactful guitar teachers, Bruce Holzman, who celebrates 50 years as guitar professor at Florida State University, and interviews with some of his former students, Adam Holzman, Jonathan Dotson, Andrew Zohn, Ricardo Cobo, and Laura Oltman.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: October 17, 2022

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   22-42 Bruce Holzman Tribute, 50 Years Guitar Professor at Florida State University

Total length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude             Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                              (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 Ponce: Preludio                                  Adam Holzman, guitar

             “Manuel Maria Ponce Guitar Music Vol. 2” (Naxos 1999) 2:10

 

Interview: Adam Holzman: “Bruce was both my first and last teacher…   … and then put it into words as to what to do.”

 

 Ponce: Prelude in F# minor              Adam Holzman, guitar

            “Classical Guitar for Work or Study” (Naxos 2011)  1:16

 

Interview: Jonathan Dotson: “I guess I was 19 when I started studying with Bruce… … it just took me 20 years to comprehend it.”

 

Beethoven: Egmont Overture                       Texas Guitar Quartet 

                     “Red” (Texas Guitar Quartet 2012) 9:09

 

Interview: Andrew Zohn: “ Well, I can say this: it sounds like a small thing, but …    … finally understood what he was talking about.”

 

Sergio Assad: Menino       Wendy Warner, cello, Sharpe-Zohn Guitar Duo

                 “Menino”             (Sharpe-Zohn Duo 2014)  6:40

 

Interview: Ricardo Cobo: “ One thing that I got from Bruce right away, that was really revealing to me … … he went many, many steps beyond that.”

 

Leo Brouwer: Concierto Elegiaco    Ricardo Cobo, guitar

                                                        Pro Musica Kiev

                                                        Richard Kapp, conductor

             “Leo Brouwer Guitar Concertos No 3 & 4”  (Essay 1995) 21:16

 

Interview: Laura Oltman: “He was very good at getting people to improve their sound …    … he might have been jerking his chain.”

  

Albeniz: Seguidillas, Zambra Granadina,           Newman-Oltman Duo

                  “Cantos de Espana”                 (MusicMasters 1997) 7:34

 

Interview: Adam Holzman: “Bruce always made the studio a family…   … and how you use that will say a lot about you.”

 

Lauro: Venezuelan Waltzes, No. 2 & 3                Adam Holzman, guitar

                “Lauro: Guitar Music, Vol. 1” (Naxos 2000) 2:42

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to one of America’s most impactful guitar teachers, Bruce Holzman, who celebrates 50 years as guitar professor at Florida State University, and interviews with some of his former students, Adam Holzman, Jonathan Dotson, Andrew Zohn, Ricardo Cobo, and Laura Oltman.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

 

23-1 Music by Batchelor, Arrigone, Bach, Morel, Pat Metheny, and Clarice Assad

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from the Renaissance to 21st Century by Batchelor, Arrigone, Bach, Morel, Pat Metheny, and Clarice Assad.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 2, 2023

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  23-1 Music by Batchelor, Arrigone, Bach, Morel, Pat Metheny, and Clarice Assad

 

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Daniel Batchelor: Mounsier’s Almain                   Dimitri Diatchenko, guitar

                             “Songs I Know By Heart”            (LCA Records 2004) 5:20

 

Carlo Arrigoni: Sonata for Mandolin and Bass     Sixty1 Strings

                      “Music of the Golden Age”         (Genuin 2022) 11:28

 

Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2, BWV 1042              John Williams, guitar,

                                   Academy of St. Martin in-the-fields, Kenneth Sillito, director

                   “Bach, Handel & Marcello: Guitar Concertos”  (Sony 1985) 17:41

 

 Jorge Morel: Sonatina                                         Celil Refik Kaya, guitar

                                  “Jorge Morel Guitar Music”   (Naxos 2016)  11:44

 

  Pat Metheny: The Hilltop                                    Guitar4mation

                                                  “Trans4mation”  (Trans4mation 2015) 6:08

 

  Clarice Assad: The Last Song                            Connie Sheu, guitar

                                                      “A Tide of Living Water”   (Connie Sheu 2019) 3:01

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music from the Renaissance to 21st Century by Batchelor, Arrigone, Bach, Morel, Pat Metheny, and Clarice Assad.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

23-2 Three Italian Guitar Concerti: Vivaldi, Viotti-Doisy, Giovanni Albini, Interview: Stanley Yates

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features three Italian Guitar Concerti: Vivaldi, Viotti-Doisy, Giovanni Albini, and a 2022 interview with British guitarist/scholar Stanley Yates

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: January 9, 2023

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  23-2 Three Italian Guitar Concerti: Vivaldi, Viotti-Doisy, Giovanni Albini, Interview: Stanley Yates

 

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

Program Length:58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                               (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Castlenuovo-Tedesco: Fuga Elegiaca: Preludio                        Brasil Guitar Duo

                    “Castlenuovo-Tedesco: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2” (Naxos 2009) 1:39

 

  Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425    sixty1strings

                                         “Music of the Golden Age” (Genuin 2022) 7:03

 

  Interview: Stanley Yates: “Yes, so Doisy is a very interesting character …    … it’s just really good. The themes are fantastic.”

 

  Viotti/Doisy: Guitar Concerto in E Minor     Stanley Yates, guitar, Fleurus Strings

                     “Concerto Spirituel: Guitar Concertos from Revolutionary Paris” (Telarc 2021) 27:28

 

  Corbetta: Corrente                                                 , Private Musicke

                    “Il Labirinto della chitarra”    (Accent 2011)  0:51

 

 

  Giovanni Albini: Corali, Double Concerto for violin & guitar   David Alogna, violin, Giogio Mirto, guitar,                  

                                                                           La Cameriste Ambrosiane, Dario Garegnane, conductor

                                         “Musica Ciclina” (Brilliant Classics 2013) 12:42

 

  Agustin Barrios Mangore: Vals op. 8, No. 3        Raphael Feuillatre, guitar

                     “Guitar Recital: Raphael Feuillatre”  (Naxos 2019) 3:37

 

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features three Italian Guitar Concerti: Vivaldi, Viotti-Doisy, Giovanni Albini, and a 2022 interview with British guitarist/scholar Stanley Yates

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

23-45 Sharon Isbin Artist Profile

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This week’s program features an October 18, 2023 interview with Grammy-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, recipient of a 2023 Hall of Fame award for Artistic Achievement by the Guitar Foundation of America, with works by Sainz de la Maza, Giazzoto, Leo Brouwer, Barrios Mangoré, Howard Shore, Lauro, Montaña, and Mark O’Connor.

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: November 6, 2023

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   23-45 Sharon Isbin Interview

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

 Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

  R. Sainz de la Maza: Zapateado   Sharon Isbin, guitar (2:16)

                                      “Latin Romances for Guitar” (Erato 2005)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: ”It’s always, of course, an interesting…   …tendered in a very nurturing way.”

 

Remo Giazzoto: Albinoni’s Adagio                              Sharon Isbin, guitar, (7:52)

                                                      Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Howard Griffiths, conductor

                             “Sharon Isbin plays Baroque Favorites” (Warner Classics 2002)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “When Leo Brouwer wrote …   … was very exciting.”

 

 Leo Brouwer: El Decameron Negro   Sharon Isbin, guitar  (13:50 TOTAL)

I.                 Harp of the Warrior (3:59)

II.               The Flight of the Lovers through the Valley of Echoes (4:03)

III.              Ballad of the Maiden in Love (5:47) Ballada de la Doncella Enamorada

                                     “Affinity” (Zoho Classix 2020)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “I had the opportunity and great fortune…   … and that were not artistic.”

 

 Barrios Mangoré: Julia Florida    Sharon Isbin, guitar  (4:26)

                                      “Journey to the Amazon” (Telarc 1997)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “Well, Steve and I had been introduced…   … very spontaneous, in-the-moment experience.”

 

 Barrios Mangoré:: La Catedral: Allegro Sharon Isbin, guitar, Steve Vai, electric guitar (4:21)                                          

                                 “Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions”  (Sony 2011)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “I had the opportunity to meet Howard…  … within the context of a film.”

 

 Howard Shore: The Departed: Beacon Hill   Sharon Isbin, guitar (2:36)

                            “The Departed (original motion picture soundtrack) (Water Tower Music 2006)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “I’d certainly been aware of Mark’s extraordinary playing…   …wonderful time doing it.”

 

Mark O’Connor: Strings & Threads Suite (selections)   Sharon Isbin, guitar, (4:34)

                                                                                    Mark O’Connor, violin

                            “Sharon Isbin: Journey to the New World” (Sony 2009)

 

Interview: Sharon Isbin: “With Thiago, it was a beautiful journey…   …lifelong friends until his passing, of just a few years ago.”

 

Lauro: Seis por Derecho   Sharon Isbin, guitar, Thiago de Mello, percussion (2:24)

                              “Journey to the Amazon” (Warner Classics 1997)

 

Lauro: Vals Venezolano No. 3  Sharon Isbin, guitar, Thiago de Mello, percussion (2:24)

                              “Journey to the Amazon” (Warner Classics 1997)

 

Montaña: Suite Colombiana: Porro   Sharon Isbin, guitar, Thiago de Mello, percussion  (2:18)

                             “Journey to the Amazon” (Warner Classics 1997)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features an October 18, 2023 interview with Grammy-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, recipient of a 2023 Hall of Fame award for Artistic Achievement by the Guitar Foundation of America, with works by Albeniz, Giazzoto, Leo Brouwer, Barrios Mangoré, Howard Shore, Lauro, Montaña, and Mark O’Connor.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

24-14 Music for April Fool’s, Interviews: Richard Stover, Stephen Funk Pearson, Scott Tennant

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This special APRIL FOOL’S edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! explores the more unusual and sometimes humorous aspects of the guitar’s recorded repertory, and interviews with the late Barrios Mangoré scholar Richard “Rico” Stover on the “Bicho Feo, tango humoristico” piece by Barrios Mangoré, composer Stephen Funk Pearson talks about humor in his music, and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet member and soloist Scott Tennant discusses the origins of their recording of Pachelbel’s “Loose” Canon,”and his recording of a guitar concerto arrangement of the theme music of the old TV show “Mr. Ed.”

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 1, 2024

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  24-14 Music for April Fool’s, Interviews: Richard Stover, Stephen Funk Pearson, Scott Tennant

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:58

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:         Carmen Suite: Prelude           Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Copland:    Fanfare for the Common Man   Michael Perlowin, pedal steel guitar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                        “Firebird Suite”          (Newport Classics 1997) (3:32)

 

  Fazil Say: Jazz Fantasy on Mozart                     Emre Gokalp and Francisco Correa, guitars

                                                   “Jazz Fantasy” (Emre Gokalp 2019) (1:52)

 

  Rossini: William Tell Overture: Allegro Vivace     Canadian Guitar Quartet

                         “Orchestral Works for Guitar” (D’Oz  2010)      (3:31)

 

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Agustin Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo (tango humoristico)           Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
  “Agustin Barrios plays his own compositions” (Chanterelle Historical Recordings 2009) (2:50)

 

  Interview: Stephen Funk Pearson: “My whole life, a sense of humor is critical to living…   … humor and music, they just go together, for me, as part of my life.”

 

  Stephen Funk Pearson:    Elassomorph             Versailles Guitar Quartet

      “Quatre Guitares A L’abbaye De L’epau”          (Quantum 1992) (9:21)                                           

                                   

Carlo Domeniconi: Circus Music, op 54: Spanish Riders on Greek Horses (1:38)

                                                                The Ural Magic Voice and the Don Cossacks (1:37)

                                                                Plik, the Flea of the Andes (0:55)

                                                                The Orchestra says Good-Bye (1:33)

             “Carlo Domeniconi: Circus Music op. 54a for 2 guitars” (Montenegrin Music Center 2016)

                                                    Montenegrin Guitar Duo (TOTAL 5:24)

 

  Gimenez:   Intermezzo, from La Boda        Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

          “Kazuhito Yamashita Plays His Favorites”      (Crown Classics 1991) (4:40)

 

Interview: Scott Tennant: “One day at rehearsal...   ... a lot of fun, just a blast.”

 

     Pachelbel:    “Loose Canon”                      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

                “For Thy Pleasure”           (Delos 1996) (6:19)

 

    Marcos Teira:  El Camino                        Pimenteira Guitarras Flamencas

                            “Pimenteira”                     (S-tone Records 1993) (6:01)

 

Interview: Scott Tennant: “That was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I did it...”    “... I got thumb’s up from Pepe, the Rodrigo King.”

 

     Livingston/Evans/Fraser: Theme from “Mr. Ed”  Scott Tenant, guitar,

                                                                               Hollywood Chamber Symphony

                              “Mozart TV”       (Delos 1997) (2:43)

 

     Duarte: Americana Suite: Hoedown       Prague Guitar Quartet

           “Prague Guitar Quartet: Stepan Rak, John W. Duarte”   (Panton 1995) (2:38)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This special APRIL FOOL’S edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! explores the more unusual and sometimes humorous aspects of the guitar’s recorded repertory, and interviews with the late Barrios Mangoré scholar Richard “Rico” Stover on the “Bicho Feo, tango humoristico” piece by Barrios Mangoré, composer Stephen Funk Pearson talks about humor in his music, and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet member and soloist Scott Tennant discusses the origins of their recording of Pachelbel’s “Loose” Canon,”and his recording of a guitar concerto arrangement of the theme music of the old TV show “Mr. Ed.”

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

24-14 Music for April Fool’s, Interviews: Richard Stover, Stephen Funk Pearson, Scott Tennant

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

This special APRIL FOOL’S edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! explores the more unusual and sometimes humorous aspects of the guitar’s recorded repertory, and interviews with the late Barrios Mangoré scholar Richard “Rico” Stover on the “Bicho Feo, tango humoristico” piece by Barrios Mangoré, composer Stephen Funk Pearson talks about humor in his music, and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet member and soloist Scott Tennant discusses the origins of their recording of Pachelbel’s “Loose” Canon,”and his recording of a guitar concerto arrangement of the theme music of the old TV show “Mr. Ed.”

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: April 1, 2024

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  24-14 Music for April Fool’s, Interviews: Richard Stover, Stephen Funk Pearson, Scott Tennant

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:58

 

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:         Carmen Suite: Prelude           Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                                      (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Copland:    Fanfare for the Common Man   Michael Perlowin, pedal steel guitar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                        “Firebird Suite”          (Newport Classics 1997) (3:32)

 

  Fazil Say: Jazz Fantasy on Mozart                     Emre Gokalp and Francisco Correa, guitars

                                                   “Jazz Fantasy” (Emre Gokalp 2019) (1:52)

 

  Rossini: William Tell Overture: Allegro Vivace     Canadian Guitar Quartet

                         “Orchestral Works for Guitar” (D’Oz  2010)      (3:31)

 

Interview: Richard Stover: “Bicho Feo had been notorious for years. . . . . .is kind of a wistful little thing.”

Agustin Barrios Mangoré: Bicho Feo (tango humoristico)           Agustin Barrios Mangoré, guitar
  “Agustin Barrios plays his own compositions” (Chanterelle Historical Recordings 2009) (2:50)

 

  Interview: Stephen Funk Pearson: “My whole life, a sense of humor is critical to living…   … humor and music, they just go together, for me, as part of my life.”

 

  Stephen Funk Pearson:    Elassomorph             Versailles Guitar Quartet

      “Quatre Guitares A L’abbaye De L’epau”          (Quantum 1992) (9:21)                                           

                                   

Carlo Domeniconi: Circus Music, op 54: Spanish Riders on Greek Horses (1:38)

                                                                The Ural Magic Voice and the Don Cossacks (1:37)

                                                                Plik, the Flea of the Andes (0:55)

                                                                The Orchestra says Good-Bye (1:33)

             “Carlo Domeniconi: Circus Music op. 54a for 2 guitars” (Montenegrin Music Center 2016)

                                                    Montenegrin Guitar Duo (TOTAL 5:24)

 

  Gimenez:   Intermezzo, from La Boda        Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

          “Kazuhito Yamashita Plays His Favorites”      (Crown Classics 1991) (4:40)

 

Interview: Scott Tennant: “One day at rehearsal...   ... a lot of fun, just a blast.”

 

     Pachelbel:    “Loose Canon”                      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

                “For Thy Pleasure”           (Delos 1996) (6:19)

 

    Marcos Teira:  El Camino                        Pimenteira Guitarras Flamencas

                            “Pimenteira”                     (S-tone Records 1993) (6:01)

 

Interview: Scott Tennant: “That was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I did it...”    “... I got thumb’s up from Pepe, the Rodrigo King.”

 

     Livingston/Evans/Fraser: Theme from “Mr. Ed”  Scott Tenant, guitar,

                                                                               Hollywood Chamber Symphony

                              “Mozart TV”       (Delos 1997) (2:43)

 

     Duarte: Americana Suite: Hoedown       Prague Guitar Quartet

           “Prague Guitar Quartet: Stepan Rak, John W. Duarte”   (Panton 1995) (2:38)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This special APRIL FOOL’S edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! explores the more unusual and sometimes humorous aspects of the guitar’s recorded repertory, and interviews with the late Barrios Mangoré scholar Richard “Rico” Stover on the “Bicho Feo, tango humoristico” piece by Barrios Mangoré, composer Stephen Funk Pearson talks about humor in his music, and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet member and soloist Scott Tennant discusses the origins of their recording of Pachelbel’s “Loose” Canon,”and his recording of a guitar concerto arrangement of the theme music of the old TV show “Mr. Ed.”

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.