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Luthier Music Founder, String Maker Tony Acosta Passes Away at 77

BY BLAIR JACKSON Sorry we’re a little late getting to this, but there is still more sad news...

Video Pick of the Week: Jennifer Kim Plays Llobet’s ‘Variations on a Theme by Sor’

Though this very popular classical-guitar piece is billed as “Variations on a Theme by Sor,” as most of...

Print Music Review: Quality and Variety in Books of 19th Century Spanish Music

España Romantica (3 volumes for solo guitar) edited by Mario Martino Ut Orpheus, 40, 42, and 64 pp....

Read Part 2 of Rico Stover’s 2011 ‘CG’ Article ‘Barrios and Segovia’!

Our tribute to our recently departed colleague Rico Stover, who died February 3, 2019, continues with Part 2...

Video Pick of the Week: Goran Krivokapić Plays the Premiere of Gerard Drozd’s Great New Guitar Concerto!

It’s a treat any time we get to hear a new guitar concerto, and this one, by the...

News from NAMM 2019 #2: More New Guitars and Gear

BY BLAIR JACKSON Here are some more new or recent products on display at the recent NAMM musical...

Guitarist and Barrios Expert Richard “Rico” Stover Passes Away at 73; Read His ‘Barrios and Segovia’ Article!

On February 3, the classical guitar world lost another important and colorful figure when Richard “Rico” Stover died...

It’s Segovia Sunday Again: The Maestro Plays Scarlatti’s Sonata L352

Just think, if we called this “Scarlatti Sunday” we could cover more than 550 Sundays on the composer’s...

Video Pick of the Week: Štĕpán Rak Plays His Moving New ‘Tombeau for Sabrina’

The day after Sabrina Vlaskalic was killed in a bicycle accident just two weeks ago, the great Czech...

News from NAMM 2019 #1: New Guitars and Other Products, Meetings with Colleagues, Etc.

BY BLAIR JACKSON Well, the giant 2019 Winter NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention in Anaheim, California...

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