Forgive me for forgetting who asked about the relevance of this Segovia thread (plural), but I couldn't resist: In Holland we have a classical guitar (OT) player who released two CDs with Segoviana. On his latest CD he plays a period Hauser restored by Hauser descendants with materials from the original Hauser workshops, went to great length to acquire the correct, period (gut!) strings, tries to emulate the technique and tone of the master and naturally the programme is all Segoviana. it's all very well done and very beaitiful. It appears Segovia has acquired hip-status and is sanctified into an Old One. You laugh at this story? I don't. Look in the mirror and see what you/we are trying to do with 'our' Weiss/Dowland/Francesco and 'our' Hiebers/Burckholzers/Sellasses and 'our' Venices/Pistoys and what-not hip paraphernalia. In other words: I think the relevance of Segovia to this list is self-evident; observe reactions from contemporaries, myth forming, canonisation of technique, interpretation, instruments and repertoire. Need I go on? David ******************************* David van Ooijen [1][email protected] [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
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