Tag: classical-guitar

Around 1830, audiences in Paris came to see a boy of seven or eight who played the guitar like a grown man. It was a time when the guitar was fashionable, and its greatest maste...

Andrés Segovia’s father broke two, perhaps three guitars. He did it not out of rage, but out of a belief shared by almost all of Spain at the end of the nineteenth century: the...

How Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya grew close remains a mystery: their first conversation, their first glance, the moment two separate careers began to become one. It all began...

If you have ever learned classical guitar, chances are you have played it. It opens with a slow arpeggio in E minor. The thumb plays the bass, while the other fingers unfold the...