Competitions are not meant for music
Competitions in music pit one musician against another as if they were athletes in a race. Music is not a race, nor is it something someone can ‘win’ at. These competitions, while providing goals...
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Issac Albeniz and the Guitar part 3
by Daniel Wolff www.danielwolff.com The story tells that Francisco Tárrega, regarded as the founder of the modern guitar school, performed his guitar transcriptions of Albéniz’s pieces for the composer, who on the occasion manifested...
Issac Albeniz and the Guitar part 2
An Essay on the man, his music, and his relationship to the guitar Part 1 by Daniel Wolff www.danielwolff.com Comprised basically of dance movements such as the polo, the fandango and the seguidillas, on...
Issac Albeniz and the Guitar part 1
An Essay on the man, his music, and his relationship to the guitar Part 1 by Daniel Wolff www.danielwolff.com Life Isaac Albéniz, one of the most important Spanish composers, regarded as the founder of...
An Interview with John Williams part 3
AP-L: You made a switch some years ago to Greg Smallman’s guitars. Can you tell us about that and your reasons for it, because I think it shocked a lot of people that you...
An Interview with John Williams part 2
AP-L: That leads almost directly to my next question – in your opinion, is the guitar an intrinsically harder instrument to play than the major classical instruments, the piano and violin, given that there...
An Interview with John Williams part 1
Interviewer: Austin Prichard-Levy Published with the kind permission of Ron Payne John Williams needs no introduction to classical guitarists, or indeed fine music lovers the world over; since his debut at the Wigmore Hall...
