The Seven-String Guitar in Russia: Its Origins, Repertoire, and Performance Practice, 1800-1850
A wonderful new book by the world’s foremost expert on the history of the Russian seven-string guitar has recently been published.
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Segovia in Russia 1926
I recently came into possession of a number of programs and articles from 1926 and one article from 1927 regarding Segovia’s concerts in Russia. In Matanya Ophee’s 2017 article “Segovia and the Russians” he included some of these items. I’m sure the book by Vaisbord includes the details from the programs and articles but I don’t have a copy of the book to compare. Hopefully this information will be of interest to others so I make them available here.
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IARGUS 2021 THE RUSSIAN GUITAR REVIVAL AROUND THE GLOBE
Wednesday, May 19 through Sunday, May 23. Held this year as a virtual event. All concerts and lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/Timofeyev63.
Yablokov M.S. – “Classic guitar in Russia and the USSR” (1992)
The large encyclopedia of Russian guitar has been made publicly available in PDF format at vk.com by Sergey Bizin.
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Russian Guitar
After recently acquiring a Russian guitar I’ve gone through a number of pedagogic resources to find those that might help others interested in learning this instrument.
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