Francisco de Asis Tárrega y Eixea , often referred to as Francisco Tárrega , is a composer, one hand playing the guitar famous Spanish . He is credited as laying the foundations for the position of the guitar as the solo instrument. In addition to the pieces he composed for the guitar, he also composed a number of other composers’ works to perform with the guitar.
What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside? Paul Tillich once said of the word faith that “it belongs to those terms which need healing before they can be used for the healing of men.” The word joy may not be quite so wounded, though I have noticed, as I have been gathering poems for a project I have been working on, that it tends to provoke conflicting responses. There … Christian Wiman – Still WildernessRead more
MODERNISM IS STILL deeply allied to the West, both geographically and culturally. In the first place, it happened there. More importantly, it has drawn sustenance from the history of crisis that dominated Western politics and culture during the 20th century. Although crisis gave modernism its distinctive features, the movement doesn’t relate itself to this crisis through description, analysis, or representation — as, say, historiography or reportage might do. Modernism’s relation to crisis has to be measured — … Amit Chaudhuri-Modernism and MimesisRead more
Jascha Heifetz plays Melodie (from Orfeo ed Euridice) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (Transcribed by Heifetz). Accompanist: Emanuel Bay
