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Airlines: Please stop treating instruments like luggage. If you make us check in the instruments, make sure that is handled properly.

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Just adding my voice again – signed! Sign the petition at Change.org
Petition by Rene IzquierdoRene Izquierdo Milwaukee, WI, Taiwan

Also see here (Congress bill on airline handling), and here (airline stories)!
Case recommendations
Accord – lightweight but expensive
Karura – still light, but a better price than the Accord
Calton – have always been strong, but heavy – new developments mean a lighter case
Hiscox – a lower cost alternative – make sure to get the flight case
Pegasus – the slim version might get your guitar on the plane, but padding is minimal
A canvas or cloth cover can make the case appear to be a soft one, which might increase your chances of getting it on board (paradoxically).

 

D’Addario Foundation presents young artists at Carnegie Hall

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imageTwo young classical guitar prodigies, Junhong Kuang and Celil Refik Kaya, are set to perform at the Carnegie Hall.
The concert will open on Thursday, October 17, featuring two performers – Junhong Kuang and Celil Refik Kaya. The event will be Mr. Kaya’s Carnegie Hall debut, he is also set to play a new piece written for him by famed Argentinian classical guitarist and composer, Jorge Morel. The event will also add “playing at the Carnegie Hall” to the young Junhong Kuang’s experience.

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Coffin Lets You Party To Spotify In The Afterlife

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For those of you who cannot keep still, this might be just the ticket.
Swedish company Pause Ljud & Bild is offering coffins complete with speakers and a streaming Spotify account to keep the tunes rocking in the grave.
For $30,000, audiophiles can jam all afterlife long in one of these special coffins, known as the CataCombo Sound System and featuring two-way speakers and a “divine” subwoofer.
Might even be enough to bring down the House of Usher

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The History of the Guitar in Brazil with Fabio Zanon

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Pioneers, Creators and Performers
For three years from 2006, Radio Cultura FM broadcast a weekly program with Fabio Zanon .
After 13 initial episodes dedicated to the series The Spanish Guitar in the Twentieth Century, Fabio focuses on the history of the guitar in Brazil.
This series of 148 programs covers the rich universe of Brazilian guitar. The guitar’s main characters are the protagonists in these programs illustrated with rare recordings and exclusive interviews.
The starting point for this series is the article by Fabio, The guitar in Brazil after Villa-Lobos.

Unfortunately, you might have to work to get the downloads, but if you succeed, this is a treasure trove of the history of ther guitar in Brazil, featuring most, if not all, the important Brazilian guitarists after Villa Lobos.
Knowing how to understand Brazilian is definitely a help!
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The Brazilian programmes

Fabio’s series on the Spanish Guitar in the XXth Century

The Art of the Guitar

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Julian Bream on his legendary career: “I never listen to my own recordings!”

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The legendary guitarist is announced as the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award ahead of the star-studded ceremony at LSO St Luke’s, London, this evening.

Born in London in 1933, Julian was inspired to pick up the guitar by his jazz-loving father. He’s gone on to become an advocate for lute, bringing the instrument into public consciousness, as well as the classical guitar.


Read more at Classic FM

In conversation with Julian Bream: a Gramophone Milestones Podcast

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During his long career Bream’s devoted commitment to championing the guitar enhanced its reputation as a concert hall instrument immeasurably, and his encouragement of composers has left the repertoire so much richer, something he continues to do today thorough his Trust. Gramophone editor Martin Cullingford met him at his home to talk about his musical life and career.

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Julian Bream: ‘I’m a better musician now than when I was 70’

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Two years ago Julian Bream was walking with his retriever, Django, in the fields around his Dorset home, when a neighbour’s dog knocked him to the ground, breaking both hips and injuring his left hand. For several years, Britain’s greatest virtuoso of guitar and lute had played through the pain of arthritis, but these new injuries compelled him to renounce making music seriously. He had retired in 2002 after 55 years of professional performing, but still liked to give the occasional recital at churches or halls near his home.


Thus ended his longest affair, one that started when nine-year-old Julian put on one of his dad’s Quintette du Hot Club de France LPs and was seduced by what he calls the “burning anguish” of Django Reinhardt’s playing.

Read more – interview in the Guardian with Stuart Jeffries