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Classical Guitar Around the World

By: Kevin Collins
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  • Classical Guitar Around the World features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers. Classical Guitar Around the World is an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertoire of the world's most popular instrument, ranging from Medieval through present day, as well as exploring guitar-related music of other cultures. Join Kevin Collins and friends on their travels around the world of the classical guitar, sharing adventures and sounds of the guitar.
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Episodes
  • Encore: David Tanenbaum and Double Echol

    Encore: David Tanenbaum and Double Echol
    Aug 24 2021
    Classical Guitarist David Tanenbaum talks to host Kevin Collins about his life with the guitar and the experience of giving birth to new musical works for the guitar. Hear him talk about making his new CD, Double Echo, and the 40 years of work and fun that got him here. Find out more about David at http://davidtanenbaum.com/
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    1 hr
  • Rene Izquierdo plays Cuban

    Rene Izquierdo plays Cuban
    Aug 17 2021
    Join classical guitarist Rene Izquierdo and Kevin Collins on a journey through the world of the classical guitar. At an early age, Rene escaped Cuba and went on to chair the guitar department at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Traveling the world, spreading the message of freedom, one note at a time. Rene recently released a new cd of the music of his homeland called Cuba en al Alma (Baros Records), or Cuba in the Soul. Rene says, I wanted to play pieces away from the beaten path, ones that showed a different and more intimate side of Cuban music. Join us as we sample the flavors and textures of the classical guitar as played by Rene Izquierdo and his wife guitarist Elina Chekan, with a guest appearance by Millet Padrón, on Classical Guitar Around the World with Kevin Collins.
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    1 hr
  • Michael Nix & the New American Banjar

    Michael Nix & the New American Banjar
    Aug 10 2021
    Meet classical guitarist Michael Nix and discover the American Banjar, a re-invention of the classical guitar and the European banjo traditions of the 1800's. How does a classically trained musician go from violin and piano to the classical guitar and then make the leap to inventing a truly American classical tradition? And make a life for himself and his family in the process. Find out what it takes to become a truly unique person, while serving your community. Michael's new CD of new music composed for the American banjar will be released on the Naxos label.
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    1 hr
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