by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog English, Music
It was very special for me making the DVD “Guitar Through the Ages”. This project allowed me the opportunity to show pieces of music from the arrival of Europeans in the Americas to present day on the instruments of each era. The project, funded by the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
The genesis of Hommage pour le tombeau de Debussy is to be found in the death of Claude Debussy, when Henri Prunierers, editor of the Parisian music journal “Le Revue Musicale”, asked numerous composers among them Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and Falla to...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
In this “Music Talks” I expand one of the ideas I mentioned on our first video, about how melodies are composed (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSevH-nSTvQ). On the first video, I focused on “universal” features that lead to the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog English
Ferdinando Carulli’s Andante Opus 241 n. 18 is an easy piece of music, accessible to beginner guitarrists, and also very beautiful. I have a special relation to it, as it was the very first piece I playied in front of an audience, in a student concert of the...
