Andres Segovia, the beloved Spanish guitarist universally credited with bringing the guitar to the forefront of the concert world, died Tuesday in Madrid of heart failure. In his 94 years, the maestro ...

Classical guitarist Pablo Villegas has been called the "natural heir" to Andres Segovia, the great Spanish guitarist of the 20th century who became the best-known ambassador for the guitar as a ...

What began in 1993 as a one-time festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of revered Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, has become an example of the genre-spanning power of classical ...

COOS BAY – Award-winning classical, Spanish, fingerstyle guitarist Andy Hackbarth pays tribute to the “Father of the Classical Guitar,” Andres Segovia, in a concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, at The ...

Fifty-eight years ago, an aspiring young musician named Andres Segovia walked onto the stage of Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to offer a tiny audience one of the first classical guitar recitals ever heard ...

Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia, who was born February 21, 1893, elevated the status of the guitar as a serious instrument for concert music. He played and taught until just a few months ...

WHEN you’re talking classical guitar, there are two names to remember – Andres Segovia, who died at age 94 in 1987, and his American student with the boyish face, Christopher Parkening. Parkening, who ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Andres Segovia popularized the classical guitar. Julian Bream took it to the next level. Bream, who died Aug. 14 at the age of 87 in his native England, stepped into a guitar world in which everything ...

WILTON — Although his reputation is based mainly on his classical playing and arrangements of popular songs, guitarist John Lehmann-Haupt's first musical incarnation was as a self-taught bluesman and ...