"Stemming from Duarte's personal contact with Andrés Segovia through 39 years of friendship, this book contains an account of Duarte's experiences and impressions of Segovia with minimal reference to external sources. Segovia is one of those towering figures in the history of the classic guitar, whose influence is comparable to that of Fernando Sor, Antonio Torres, Francisco Tárrega, and Albert Augustine, all of whom radically changed the course of the instrument's history."
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John (Jack) Duarte was born in Sheffield on 2 October 1919. He is 100% English despite his name, his father being Scottish and mother English. He was educated at the Manchester Central High School (1931-35) and obtained an Honours Degree in Science at Manchester University, Faculty ofTechnology (1936-40). He worked as a professional scientist until 1969, when he abandoned science in favour of full-time music. His formal musical education was lessons with Terence Usher (1934-36) in jazz-guitar playing; the rest was by self-instruction. He also worked professionally as a player of the trumpet and double-bass in music of many kinds, and regularly as a jazz musician until 1953.
His many friendships with great artists have included one of 39 years with Andrés Segovia and a shorter one with Ida Presti, who died in 1967. Among those who have died, he can count as colleagues or collaborators in various ways, many other prominent figures in the 20th-century guitar scene: Laurindo Almeida, Alexandre Lagoya, Antonio Ruiz-Pipó, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Alexandre Tansman, and in the field of the lute, the great Diana Poulton.
John Duarte has composed over 130 works for the guitar and lute, many commissioned with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain and other sources, private and official, both domestic and overseas. Most have been published; 57 have been recorded, some several times, by 58 artists and ensembles from 24 countries. He is also the author of many arrangements and didactic works.
He has been –and still is-- a proflific writer, currently as a contributor to the American journal Soundboard, specialist reviewer of baroque, early and plucked-string music for Gramophone, reviewer for Music Teacher and contributor to Classical Guitar. As an annotator he has written countless concert programe notes and liner notes for over 250 recordings of music of many kinds, including those for the reissue of Julian Bream’s recordings with RCA (28 compact discs). In 1980 he received a Grammy Award for his annotation of the reissue of Segovia’s recordings made for EMI (1927-39). Other magazines for which he has written regularly in the past include BMG, Music in Education, Guitar Review, Guitar International, Guitar Player, Music & Musicians, Records & Recording, Classical Music Fortnightly and Performance. He is a contributor to the new edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
As a teacher he has prepared many international students for successful careers and he was Director of the Cannington International Guitar Summer School and Festival (1974-93). In 1994-95 he was Course Director of the Bath International Guitar Festival and since 1996 he has taught at the Oatridge International Guitar Summer School and Festival (Edinburgh), for which he writes a yearly guitar-orchestral work. In addition he has enjoyed teaching, lecturing and adjudicating in competitions in 29 countries outside Great Britain.
In 1990 he received a decoration for his contributions to Anglo-Czech and –Slovak cultural relations. On 20 February 1999 he was honoured to receive a plaque, presented by the Fullerton campus of California State University "In recognition of his extraordinary contribution to students world-wide through his teaching, writing and composition." On 20 August 1999 he was accorded a virtuosic tribute concert at the VIIth International Guitar Festival in Brno (Czech Republic), and at the Convention of the Guitar Foundation of America in October 1999 he received an Award for Lifetime Achievement.
John Duarte’s 60th and 70th birthdays were celebrated with concerts of his music in London, played by artists from England, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Germany, the USA and Venezuela. That on his 80th birthday was given by artists from Brazil, Croatia, England, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.
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If you're looking to fill in your Segovia knowledge...,
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... this is a good book. But as a Segovia biography it's pretty sketchy.Segovia's own biography of his early years is only slightly better.
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I found this book very disappointing. It was more "name dropping" on the author's part than any serious attempt to capture or reflect the man or the "spirit" of Segovia or his work. If Duarte had been a Talk Show rather than corrupting the medium of serious biography, he would have spent his entire 15 minutes plugging his own work with a very minor nod to the greatest guitarist of all time. Shame on you Mr. Duarte.
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Segovia en la Calle Vuelo,
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Segovia is by far the best guitarist of our time. Durarte captures the Segovia spirit in its pages. This book certainly has duende
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Late in 1947 the news reached us that Segovia was to give a recital for the Bradford Music Society, whereupon members of the Manchester Guitar Circle hired a Rolls Royce, which seemed appropriate to the occasion, and were driven in style across the wintry moors to partake of the Ultimate Experience; the Sounds were to reach us without the intervention of gramophone or radio, and their maker was to become incarnate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Ida Presti, John Williams, Julian Bream, Royal Festival Hall, Emilio Pujol, World War, Alexandre Tansman, Olga Coelho, Westbury Hotel New!
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Late in 1947 the news reached us that Segovia was to give a recital for the Bradford Music Society, whereupon members of the Manchester Guitar Circle hired a Rolls Royce, which seemed appropriate to the occasion, and were driven in style across the wintry moors to partake of the Ultimate Experience; the Sounds were to reach us without the intervention of gramophone or radio, and their maker was to become incarnate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
famous guitarist, classic guitar, early music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ida Presti, John Williams, Julian Bream, Royal Festival Hall, Emilio Pujol, World War, Alexandre Tansman, Olga Coelho, Westbury Hotel New!
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- The Classical Guitar by Summerfield in Front Matter, page 25, and page 62
- New Guitar Method [English Translation] by Dionisio Aguado on page 54
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