Sunday, January 25, 2015

Classical Guitar Magazine - End of an era !

Last month, December 2014 was the last England based copy of CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE.This fabulous magazine has been my monthly companion since its initial issue in the 80s and ended with a smiling face of the legendary JULIAN BREAM on its cover ( which is the way it started ). I really miss MAESTRO BREAM and His fantastic performances! WHAT A MUSICAL TREASURE!! I will be holding my breath as the now U.S. based publication will have a monster task to live up to the excellence soundly established by the magical wand and hard work of  my dear friend MAURICE SUMMERFIELD and his great staff of gifted contributors! I can only hope that however the publishing pie is divided, we will continue to enjoy an up to date and varied world of our great instrument. I hear we will now only be seeing a quarterly publication! There is far too much going on in the Classical Guitar world to be stifled by such brevity ( in my opinion ), but then it remains to be seen.
 As we await the arrival here in New York of "The Snow Storm of the Century", instead of gigging for 4 hours at the Staten Island Ferry, I may be snowbound hoping that we get off less severely. On top of this "Monster Storm', there has been scaffolding on the front of my apartment building for several months now and I am hoping we will be all right because this computer and my great books are right here in this front room!!!
Hopefully all will be well and this may be exactly what I needed to come back to Internet life! Stay tuned kiddies for the adventures of DONNIE GUITAR!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS AROUND THE GLOBE and thanks for being a part of my life!! A BIG HUG TO YOU ALL!