Editor’s Note: This article is based on the text and pictures of a lecture I delivered at the 2007 IARGUS conference in Iowa City. My audience at that conference was rather small, but the subject matter, it seems to me, is of great interest to many who could not have come Read more…
by Jesús de las Heras Jiménez [DGA Editor: the author’s website is no longer active so links have been updated to point to snapshots at archive.org. Spanish and Esperanto versions not included yet.] Editor’s Note: It is not everyday one comes across a treasure trove such as the one found in Read more…
Attributed to Mikhail Vyssotsky (1791-1837) To download the music in PDF format for high quality printing, click here: In the event your browser does not have the correct MIDI plug-in, you can down load the file here: Introduced by Matanya Ophee Move over Spanish Romance, Jeux Interdix or whatever you want to Read more…
By Matanya Ophee Note: This article was sent to the editors of Classical Guitar magzine. It was rejected for publication because, I was told, it was “too long.” The issues involved, it seems to me, are much too important to our discipline to be glossed over by the considerations of a magazine, howver they may Read more…
By Matanya Ophee The storm surrounding the Associated Board examination lists in England seems to have subsided.[1]See our [Killing the Message II]. The principals involved went on to other pursuits, and an affair that quickly rose to prominent coverage on the pages of Classical Guitar magazine, went out with a flaccid after-thought, expressed Read more…
An Annotated Bibliography Compiled and annotated by Erica M. Lohmann and Matanya Ophee Books: 1981, Luigi Boccherini’s Guitar Quintets: New Evidence, to which is added, for the first time, a reliable biography of François de Fossa and a checklist of his known compositions. Establishes the provenance of the guitar quintets by Read more…
By Matanya Ophee [DGA Editor: Russian version not included yet.] The really good stuff is private, right? Photo by Studio Atar, Tel Aviv, 1964. And that’s my gorgeous Fleta!which I don’t have anymore 🙁 . . . Tel-Aviv, 1999. On the occasion of my grandsonOphir Mardan’s bar-mitzvah.The ceremonial Cohiba is unlit… I was born Read more…