Wednesday, December 7, 2011

WOLFGANG LENDLE ON YOU TUBE

I am once again reminding you of the great German Virtuoso WOLFGANG LENDLE! I have him playing as I write this post and implore you to jump on to YouTube and feast on this truly phenomenal Artist. Such great musicality and perfection of execution! What a treat to be here at 5:06 am in the morning having a great concert by one of our truly great artists who you probably no nothing about! TRUST ME! LISTEN TO WOLFGANG LENDLE AND FEAST ON THE BEST THAT THE CLASSICAL GUITAR HAS TO OFFER!
He recently downloaded about 14 or so videos produced in his home and MAN OH MAN what a Guitar MONSTER!!!!!! He plays his ass off! THANKS WOLFGANG!!!!!

Rupert Boyd - GREAT YOUNG VIRTUOSO

I JUST RECEIVED AN E-MAIL FROM MY YOUNG COLLEAGUE RUBERT BOYD informing me that he will be giving a concert at TRINITY CHURCH tomorrow Thursday at 1pm.I have followed this great young artist for several years now and he never fails to present the finest in The Art of the Classical Guitar. He has just uploaded several performances to YouTube and once you get a taste of the "BOYD MAN", you will remain a life long fan! Check him out:

Thursday December 8th, 1pm
Trinity Church
Wall St & Broadway
(The nexus of the subway system: 2, 3, 4 & 5 to Wall Street; J & M to Broad Street; A & C to Broadway-Nassau; E, C & PATH to World Trade Center; 1, R & N, to Rector Street).


December 8th also marks the 31st anniversary of the death of one of my biggest idols John Lennon, and so is a special and reflective day for music in New York City.


Happy Holidays,
Rupert


ps. for anyone who cannot make it or would like a preview, here is a recently uploaded YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjC21S4COoI&feature=g-upl


http://www.rupertboyd.com

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Don MCLEAN and the beauty of song

I have been going back to my upbringing to secure a new repertoire of song arrangements from the 60s' 70's and have had my heart melted by a couple of songs of Don Mc Clean. ON youtube you can find both very early "Live" performances by Don and also the great PERRY COMO who had a successful Hit with the same song. I just found a version by ELVIS PRESLEY and was surprised by how lovely he sang it also. Of course,as a Guitarist there is a lovely rendition of "MR. GUITAR - CHET ATKINS in both solo and in Duo with DON MCLEAN singing it- again on youtube! What a treasure to experience these great songs and give me room to make a fine tuning of my solo guitar arrngements/improvisations of these masterpieces! Every time I play "VINCENT",I get so many possitive comments. In a few hours (1pm) I will be giveing a concert in Staten Island at the South Beach Public Library and will be playing that gorgeous "VINCENT" for the audience! What a treasure!