Alirio Diaz Interpreta Melodias Larenses
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
- It was a rainy night and Andres Segovia had just given an incredible guitar concert in Dallas, Tx. My teacher and close mentor Robert Guthrie was lucky enough to hear him play that night and followed him to his hotel in the hopes of playing for the maestro. When he knocked on the door, Segovia welcomed him inside and listened to Mr. Guthrie play for hours. The unexpected meeting turned into a long lesson that ended with Segovia giving him the phone number for the North Carolina School of the Arts, promising him an artistic scholarship to study at the University. At the age of 22, Robert Guthrie had impressed the man who elevated the respect for the classical guitar to a collegiate/professional level. Unfortunately, this was before the advent of the internet and Mr. Guthrie lost the phone number. However, he saw an advertisement for the school in a local newspaper and was able to accept the scholarship and attend UNCSA for his undergraduate studies.
After studying at UNCSA, which included a few additional lessons with Segovia, he set off to study in Caracas, Venezuela with Alirio Diaz. Upon his arrival, he quickly discovered that there was a first round of auditions that determined who got to study at the University and who would fly back home. When it was his turn to play, he recalls seeing the guitarist before him leave flustered and pale in the face. Maestro Alirio Diaz, guitarist Fredy Reyna, composers Antonio Lauro and Vicente Soto, as well as university faculty, all sat in the auditorium. When Mr. Guthrie entered the stage, he sat down and was asked to play Etude No. 7 by Heitor Villa-Lobos. He recalls playing the well-known E major scale at the start of the piece with lightning rest-stroke speed and accuracy, getting a “woo!” from some Venezuelan guy in the audience. Long story short, they accepted him in a heartbeat.
It is the dedication of my teacher and the great guitarists he studied with that inspire me to play the music that they have spent their lives performing and mastering. The audio in this video was digitized from a cassette tape that Alirio Diaz had given to Mr. Guthrie in the ‘80s when they both happened to be giving concerts in Rome. Because most homes in Italy do not have A/C, they had to meet at night because it was too hot to have two people inside during the day. The first image of the insane stretch is a picture that Mr. Guthrie took in Alirio’s apartment that summer in Rome.
My favorite guitarist.
Digne élève de Segovia. Quelle clarté et quelle fluidité ! Je m'incline devant un tel talent
Solid gold listening experience.
Gran orgullo larense especialmente de la Candelaria un pueblo cerca de la Ciudad Caroreña del Estado Lara.Maestro vuela alto
A self-made translation for the introduction:
Compare to the abundant and diverse popular music repertoire of Lara State, the ones that appear in this tape are only a very brief sample of the works by anonymous and well-known composers in that region. Therefore, the selection of music turned out to be difficult for us. Within the limited time and space, following only our personal taste and preference, we chose pieces from this repertoire which allowed us to make harmonic and guitaristic elaborations. As you can see, even though most of these works were not originally for guitar, this instrument often participated in the direct or indirect creation of many Larense songs, served as one in the instrumental ensemble, or a simple and evocative accompaniment of sentimental songs. Almost all the composers that we present here were also skilled guitar players.
Many of the pieces were gathered by myself during repeating excursions around the countryside and the villages and cities in Lara, which allowed me to obtain different versions of a single work. We found others in old records or in some rare manuscript. The ones that I have been able to harmonize are very little compared to what we collected. For example, only speaking of the old songs alone, we collected 120 of them, which were recorded or copied in Carohana City and its District.
Alirio Díaz
Thank youuuu!
How much wonderful folklore has been lost without being recorded
Thanks so much for posting, I also enjoyed reading the description.
While I was listening this outstanding record of Diaz ,I read the story you wrote about your teacher.I was vey impressed of hearing about unknown incidents which are very precious for guitar history.Then I suscripted to your channel and began to watch your own videos.Finally I listened to your tecaher,Robert GUTHRIE on a video concert performed on Mexican TV İN 80's Regards
Thank you for commenting! I couldn't agree more. Mr. Guthrie has so many interesting stories about his studies/concertizing. It makes me want to write a biography of his life as a guitarist.
Il mio maestro ❤❤ .
Ho fatto solo tre masterclass, ma sono stati i piú belli.
Fuck YES
Muito obrigado.
Great story! I love it.
I cannot seem to find the sheet for any of these compositions. I am specifically looking for a piece call “Guaso” by Vicente Emilio Sojo. Could you help me please? Thank you very much.
I can't seem to find a score for that piece but will keep looking!
La foto donde aparece Alirio Diaz junto al guitarrista Robert Guthrie quien fue mi profesor en USA , esa foto se la regalé a él en Carora ...
ディアスのポンセのソナタロマンチカとイ短調組曲のアップお願いします。(東芝EMIのテデスコ、ギター六重奏曲に収録。）レコードのみか。