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FR: Tony Morris

DT: August 19, 2015
RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 400 Years of Popular Music, Cruz, Norge,
Barrueco Interviews
Program ID# 15-D65-00033
Title: 400 Years of Popular Music, Mark Cruz, Kaare Norge, Manuel Barrueco
Interviews
Feed date and time: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 1300 ET
Total Length: 58:57
In Cue: MUSIC IN Hello and welcome to
Out Cue: MUSIC IN another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!
Program Length: 58:57
INTRODUCTION:
Bizet:
Prelude
PROGRAM BEGINS:
Byrd: The Woods So Wild

Los Romeros, guitars

(Philips 412-609)
Julian Bream, lute
(RCA 61587)

Narvaez: Guardame las Vacas

Konrad Ragossnig, lute

(DG Arkiv 4477272)

Falla: 3 Popular Spanish Songs

Sharon OConnor, cello

Marc Teicholz, guitar
(Menus and Music 6)

Llobet: The Merchants Daughter

Popp: Love is Blue

Mosaic Guitar Quartet

(LAMD 30)
Leo Brouwer, guitar
(live recording, Havana 1978)
(Frame 9721)

Interview: Kaare Norge: First of all, if you want to do a Beatles record... ...just the
force of hte melody.
Lennon/McCartney: Here, There, Everywhere
Kaare Norge, guitar
Michelle, Blackbird
(EMI-Denmark 2011)
Interview: Mark Cruz: That whole CD is influenced by my brother Edgar.
transcription of the original.
Simon: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Mark Cruz, guitar
(MAC 78572-21532)
Interview: Mark Cruz:Yeah, thats an interesting question that would be
awesome!
Page/Plant: The Rain Song
Mark Cruz, guitar
(MAC 78572-21532)
Interview: Mark Cruz:Everlong! Because I love the Foo Fighters its just cool.
Page/Plant: The Rain Song
Mark Cruz, guitar
(MAC 78572-21532)

Interview excerpt: Manuel Barrueco: Ive done a lot of work with the Kings
Singers it seemed an obvious thing to do.
Lennon/McCartney/Brouwer: Eleanor Rigby
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
London Symphony Orchestra
Jeremy Lubbock, cond.
(EMI 55228)
CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 400 years of popular music and
interviews with Mark Cruz, Kaare Norge and Manuel Barrueco. One of the oldest
musical traditions is the use of pre-existing popular music by composers for new
works in theme & variation form, elaborate new arrangements, and simple settings.
The program begins with a set of variations on the popular Elizabethan English song,
"The Woods So Wild". Lutenist Julian Bream based his recording on settings of this
tune by both William Byrd (1543-1623) and Francis Cutting (1583-1603).
One of the earliest (1538) printed set of variations was Spanish vihuelist Luys de
Narvaez's setting of the popular song "Guardame las Vacas", or "Guard my Cows".
Venezuelan guitarist Alirio Diaz performs.
Unlike, Narvaez, fellow Spanish composer Manuel de Falla chose not to use the theme
& variations form for his 7 Popular Spanish Songs. Instead, the songs are set in a
fairly straightforward manner. Cellist Sharon O'Connor and guitarist Marc Teicholz
perform "Asturiana", a lullabye titled "Nana", and "Cancion".
Early 20th Century guitarist Miguel Llobet harmonized popular songs of his native
Catalonia (NorthEastern province of Spain-bordered by France and the Mediterranean
Sea). Frances Mosaic Guitar Quartet performs "La Fille del Marxant" (The Merchant's
Daughter),
In this extremely rare live concert recording (recently issued on the Italian label:
Frame Records) made in Havana in 1978, composer/guitarist Leo Brouwer performs
his arrangement of the 60's pop hit "Love is Blue". This recording proves what a
great, exciting performer Leo Brouwer was! His decision (early 1980s) to quit
performing as a solo guitarist was a real loss.
Danish guitarist Kaare Norge speaks about his approach to his Beatles recording in a
2014 interview, followed by his arrangements of Here, There, and Everywhere,
Michelle, and Blackbird.
Acoustic Interpretations is Mark Cruzs 2015 CD of solo classical guitar
arrangements of popular songs. He speaks about the inspiration from his brother
Edgar Cruz, whose own arrangement of Queens Bohemian Rhapsody gained over
14 million views, his own approach to arranging, and his admiration for Dave Grohl of
the Foo Fighters.
In a 1995 interview excerpt, Manuel Barrueco discusses how his work with the Kings'
Singers influenced his decision to record music by pop artists Paul Simon, the
Beatles, and others. Barrueco performs Paul Simon's "Bookends", and this edition
ends with Leo Brouwer's masterful setting of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby". Listen for
the fugal writing in the strings, and the opening quote from Brouwer's own Concerto
de Toronto, Ist movement.

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