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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Today's Listening: Leo Brouwer in Moscow, 1981

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One of the great tragedies of the guitar since WWII was the curtailed performing career of Leo Brouwer due to an injury to a right hand fing...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Musical Rooms

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I ran across an interesting clip on YouTube I want to share with you. Initially it was because it was the very unusual case of a classical g...
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Friday, May 2, 2025

Music, the soundtrack of our lives

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There are things about living in Canada I miss, like hiking in the Victoria, BC area. There are a wealth of beautiful places to see, from th...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated

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Not my death! No, that's classical music talking. I just read a fascinating essay by "Ben" on substack . It's hard to exce...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Non-Friday Miscellanea

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  Church in historic Puebla I just got back from spending Easter weekend in Puebla , a city of 3.3 million people midway between the port of...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

What I'm currently reading

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 "Truth and beauty are in this alike, that the strictest survey seats them both off to advantage. While the false lustre of error and d...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Pat-Ko in the New York Times

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 I have raved about this extraordinary musician a number of times on this blog, and had the pleasure of seeing her perform at the Salzburg F...
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Bryan Townsend
Born in Alberta, Canada, grew up on Vancouver Island, lived a decade in Montreal, resident in Mexico since 1998. Degrees in music from McGill University in performance, post-graduate study in musicology. Catalogue includes a cycle of twelve songs, two suites for solo guitar, chamber music for violin, viola and guitar, two guitars and harpsichord and other combinations including three pieces for guitar orchestra published by Guitarissimo of Stockholm, Sweden. Publications include two books of pedagogy for guitar, one on technique and the other on playing Bach, which included eight new transcriptions for guitar. Four Pieces for Violin and Guitar were published by The Avondale Press in Vancouver. In April 2015 a new piece for violin and piano, "Chase" was premiered in a concert at Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico. In the 2021/2022 season there will be two premieres: the String Quartet 2 in Vancouver and an untitled piano piece in the Pro Musica series in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico.
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