I am so happy to be back. Things were going well until the sick bell rang for me with Diabetic complications that landed me in the hospital for a week! Well I am slowly getting back to work playing around the city. I just turned 63 this last Saturday April 6th and I have decided that for the next 2 years I will stay out of the general scene hanging at concerts and workshops to concentrate on making ME a GREAT PLAYER! I will be spending more time on this blog helping to support my love of the guitar in my own way.
This year you should try to make it to the MANNES GUITAR SEMINAR as the main focus will be how to make that career in marketing yourself as a Guitarist! I already paid for my week's stay and I think I will go to the GFA for the fun of it. You won't see me at the Guitar Society either as I really concentrate on things I need to address as I work on myself. There are so many things I yet have to get done and this recent bout in the hospital opened my eyes to a few important things in life.
I have just received a new CD from my dear colleague in Germany PIA GAZAREK-OFFERMANN and will be reviewing it in my next post. I listened to the hour long CD from 12:30 to 01:30 am this morning and am excited to bring you this review. As you know I have covered this great artist before and believe she is a magical player who will cast a magical musical glow over all who experience her artistry so stay tuned to the Donnie Channel !
I must thank the great and beautiful DAVID LEISNER for remembering my birthday on FACE BOOK! LOVE YOU BUDDIE!!!
A big shout out goes to the great publisher of CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE, MAURICE SUMMERFIELD who will be honored at the GFA this year. Thanks Maurice for my monthly pages of Guitar Joy!
My sadness for not attending the concert of one of my guitar heroes - GOHAR VARDANYAN! I was too weak to travel anywhere after being in the hospital for the preceding week but I know she glowed like the great jewel she is!!!!
You must check out the new pod casts produced BRET WILLIAMS. His 1st show interviewed my dear colleague JULIA CROWE! What an incredible person she is! In the second interview, Bret interviewed the great young virtuoso RUPERT BOYD! Rupert is really way up there near the top of the list of great artists and such a sweet young man. I have been a great fan of his for over decade and if you ever get a chance to hear him R U S H TO GET THAT TICKET! This young man has it all together. WWW.RUPERTBOYD.COM.
I think that is it for now kiddies! It is 4:04 Saturday Morning and I as PUMPED up to get back here in business.
FORBES HENDERSON in England! I have not forgotten you! I will be doing our thing with the mister BACH in due time.
As I remember England, I must hug DAVID CASWELL for being such a wonderful artist! I spent some quality time with DAVID who is a monster Player when I attended WEST DEAN in 1997/1999. I have a cassette of us playing for each other that hits all 10's! Thanks DAVID.
When my wife and I vacationed in Puerto Rico, I had the great joy of visiting two great artists : ERNESTO CORDERO and JUAN SORROCHE!!! I spent a wonderful evening with Maestro Cordero that I will never forget.His hospitality was amazing and he treated me like a king!!! When I was able to catch JUAN SORROCHE at the University of Puerto Rico, he spent about and hour with me as he read through his wonderful compositions for me! That is one of the reasons why I am taking off the next two years from the New York Guitar scene. I want to present a Puerto Rican Guitar program ( which I promised to both of these greats ). Need the time to prepare. Outside of some native Puerto Rican artists, hardly any one is playing their beautiful. I just received an email from Maestro Cordero a couple of days ago with a video of a new work. I am humbled that he took the time to contact me.
My stay in the hospital slapped me silly with thoughts of things I should concentrate on from here in and I made a mental list of what I want to get done and promises to keep so here I go.Thanks for letting me air this online and I hope to be a valuable voice in our Classical/Jazz Guitar world.
DONNIE GUITAR!!!
p.s. I cannot leave this without hugging my dear and loving wife who has stood by me.This July will be our 26th wedding anniversary. We have been been together 28 years!! W H E W !!! I am a lucky man to have such an incredible human being as my wife is and I know she can't stand my shouting her praises to such a public audience, but I dearly love this special human being and I almost daily tell her I don't deserve her but I do my best to please her. WHAT A PAIR!!! She has stood by me for: a stent implant,Quadruple bypass,Prostate Cancer and two nasty bouts with diabetic complications. When I had the Prostate Cancer I spent the whole month of December that year 5 days a week getting Radiation treatment by the worst situation was the Bypass as I had to get my butt walking so slowly and feeling like a weak kitten. She made sure I had my progress every day and especially those days when I just wanted to pull the cover over my head and disappear. She also made come incredible meals for me. What a champion human being I married.
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