Romero made his U.S. debut at age 16 with the "Concierto de Aranjuez" at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic. This series of performances marks his highly anticipated return.
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Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' (1937) visually describes the carnage and morose nature of war, but what was the inspiration for Joaquin Rodrigo's most famous guitar concerto? It had been conjectured that ...
With his Third Symphony, Beethoven left everyone speechless; no one had ever heard a work like it. Could symphonic music really say so many things? Beethoven showed that it could. The “Eroica” marked ...
We drop in at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, to hear the Buffalo Philharmonic and guitarist Angel Romero play the Concierto de Aranjuez (con-see-AIR-to day ar-AN-whez) by Joaquin Rodrigo ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Recovering from its European tour, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra scheduled one concert for this month, a curious affair combining the ...
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As cliché as it may seem for a classical guitar player, my "First Love" would be a tie between Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (yes, the one you hear all the time!) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ ...
Hovhaness's Symphony No. 2, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 This week on The Phoenix Symphony broadcast, special guest Pablo Sainz Villegas joins us on guitar for ...
Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. He wrote it amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. How has it ...