{"id":3246,"date":"2011-06-18T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2011-06-18T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:38:01","slug":"newmusicbox-the-classical-guitar-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"NewMusicBox &#8211; The Classical Guitar in the USA &#8211; Guitar Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidleisner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some weeks ago I have discovered the <strong>NewMusicBox <\/strong>site when they published the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/articles\/juilliard-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juilliard Commencement Speech of John Adams<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NewMusicBox, a multimedia publication from the American Music Center,   is dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and   their champions. NewMusicBox offers: in-depth profiles, articles, and  discussions;  up-to-the-minute industry news and commentary; a direct  portal to our  internet radio station, Counterstream; and access to an  online library  of more than 57,000 works by more than 6,000 composers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I looked through this site I found that this is a very interesting resource for guitarists too. Especialy I have found the <a href=\"http:\/\/newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=2514\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>transcript of a roundtable with five American guitarists<\/strong><\/a> who talked about learning, playing and composing for the guitar and some aspects of its literature.<\/p>\n<p>The topics in detail were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting an Education<\/li>\n<li>Good Time to be a Guitarist<\/li>\n<li>Acoustic vs. Electric<\/li>\n<li>Performer &#8211; Composer<\/li>\n<li>Working with other Composers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find this transcription here: <a href=\"http:\/\/newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=2514\" target=\"_blank\">Worth Fretting Over<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Guitar roundtable with James Emery, Dominic Frasca, Stephen Griesgraber, David Leisner, David Starobin, Mark Stewart<\/p>\n<p>I have selected two short quotes form the transcription of this roundtable.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID STAROBIN about his lessons with Bernard Goldschmidt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s really a coincidence, I    also had a teacher in the Cleveland  Orchestra\u2014the principal second violinist    Bernard Goldschmidt used to  give me lessons one summer when I was thirteen at    the Allegany Music  Festival. I remember him because I played the Villa    Lobos Third Prelude. In the middle section there is a very sort of typical    rubato that guitarists have always adopted. It\u2019s very dumb rubato that  basically feels    good on the instrument. He couldn\u2019t understand this.  He said, \u201cWhat are you    doing that for?\u201d And I said, \u201cWell, you know,  my hands just do it.\u201d [everyone    laughs] So he really nailed  me. It was great for a thirteen-year-old kid    to learn a really great  lesson in phrasing because, you know, I have to think    about why this  note goes to the other note. It was one of the first times that    I  really found a musician who said think about what you\u2019re doing, don\u2019t  just    play it because you heard it that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Playlist with some versions of the 3rd. Prelude by Heitor Villa_lobos<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/AFFDC762AAA7B108?hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nAnother interesting quote from David Leisner about the importance of ensemble playing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DAVID LEISNER: Which is really why it\u2019s up  to the    educators to bring more and more chamber music into the  education of guitarists.    I think it\u2019s absolutely essential. It also  happens to help the solo playing    tremendously. You improve your  rhythm, you improve your awareness, all kinds    of things. We don\u2019t  play with orchestras, we certainly haven\u2019t played much chamber    music  until recent times, so guitarists are stuck in a little corner with  their    terrible habits and if they play any chamber music at all it  tends to be guitar    ensemble\u2014you know, where they put together other  guitarists with equally horrid    habits, and they\u2019re not forced out in  to the big world of music with the fiddle    players, and the cello  players, and the wind players, and the singers, and that\u2019s    what  really expands a guitarist\u2019s horizon. The more that that\u2019s done the less     that this sort of thing that we\u2019re talking about will happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Playlist David Leisner &#8211; Dances in the Madhouse for Flute and Guitar<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>From David Leisners homepage about this composition for flute and guitar:<br \/>\nDances in the Madhouse (12\u2019) for violin\/flute and guitar, 1982 &#8211; now considered a classic of the repertoire, a dance suite with Tango Solitaire, Waltz for the Old Folks, Ballad for the Lonely and Samba!, inspired by a lithograph by early 20th-century American George Bellows, depicting a social dance in an insane asylum &#8211; Merion\u00a0 Music\/Theodore Presser Co.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/2D0F4A29F1E748FE?hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h2>Additional Information<\/h2>\n<p>Homepage <strong>James Emery<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.james-emery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.james-emery.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia about <strong>Dominic Frasca<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominic_Frasca\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominic_Frasca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homepage <strong>Dominic Frasca<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicfrasca.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dominicfrasca.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homepage <strong>David Leisner<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidleisner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.davidleisner.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia about <strong>David Starobin<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Starobin\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Starobin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia about <strong>Mark Stewart<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Stewart_%28guitarist%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Stewart_%28guitarist%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More articles about the guitar on NewMusicBox: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/?s=guitar\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/?s=guitar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some weeks ago I have discovered the NewMusicBox site when they published the Juilliard Commencement Speech of John Adams NewMusicBox, a multimedia publication from the American Music Center, is dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and their champions. 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