Daily guide to television and radio Oct 1, 2009
5) Andres Segovia plays a guitar arrangement of Boccherini Cello Concerto in D.. World Cafe 7 p.m. WUMB-FM (91. (Boston Globe)
More of this story» May 19, 2009
McGuinn's encore includes "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" (he took his own advice of getting a guitar and taking the time to learn how to play it), followed by "Eight Miles High," featuring furious guitar playing with elements of sitarist Ravi Shankar, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and flamenco guitarist Andres Segovia "thrown in just for fun.". McGuinn exits Dowagiac with "May the Road Rise to Mee You," which he and his wife Camilla (the dark-haired... (Dowagiac News, MI)
Roger McGuinn: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer the 'Forrest Gump of music'? May 7, 2009
"Andres Segovia continued performing all his life," McGuinn says. "That's what I plan to do.". (Dowagiac News, MI)
* 'Take two concertos and call me in the morning': medical music Mar 30, 2009
Initially the dying woman responded best to the classical Spanish guitar music she had always enjoyed: Andres Segovia, Narciso Yepes. But as her condition worsened, those old favorites seemed to distress her and gentle Minimalism X nothing complex, Brandes said X proved more beneficial. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Thomas Humphrey's teacher completes the late guitar maker's work Feb 13, 2009
Humphrey's designs were a radical departure from, say, the heralded handmade guitars of Puerto Rican maker Manuel Velazquez, whose instruments were played by Andres Segovia. Luthier Michael Gurian presented a lecture about Humphrey shortly after he died. (Boston Globe)