{"id":1002,"date":"2013-09-14T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2013-09-12T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:16:15","slug":"segovia-and-flamenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Segovia and Flamenco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Segovia on Flamenco Guitar, Song and Dance \u2013 from Guitar Review, 1977<\/h1>\n

Segovia\u2019s<\/a> stated credo was that he, like the Blues Brothers, was on a mission from God \u2014 well, maybe not God, but a sort of holy mission \u2014 to rescue the guitar from the taverns and the associated lowlife folks in whose hands it was then found. Obviously, he could have problems with flamenco.<\/em>
\nWell, not quite, as it turns out.<\/p>\n

\"Flamencos

Manolo Cano, Andr\u00e9s Segovia, Sabicas and Rafael G\u00f3mez Montero at the CONCURSO NACIONAL DE CANTE JONDO GRANADA 1922<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to Brook Zern<\/a> of the Flamenco Experience for this fascinating article.<\/p>\n

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Segovia: \u201cI love the flamenco, but the TRUE flamenco \u2014 not the flamenco heard these days. The flamenco guitarist of today has removed his attention from the ideals of yesterday, when this noble art was prized for a depth of emotion which could be produced by a certain simplicity of approach. Today\u2019s guitarists are more theatrical, they want to show their technique, to dazzle the public with pyrotechnics…” Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Segovia on Flamenco Guitar, Song and Dance \u2013 from Guitar Review, 1977 Segovia\u2019s stated credo was that he, like the Blues Brothers, was on a mission from God \u2014 well, maybe not God, but a sort of holy mission \u2014 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,41,24],"tags":[372,331,373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}