We’ll have five degree recitals in the USC Guitar program this semester:

13 October, 7:30: James Kerestes, Junior Recital
18 October, 7:30: Jonathan Gangi, DMA Recital
21 November, 7:30: Alma Sehic, DMA Recital
28 November, 6:00: Isaac Greene, Junior Recital
2 December, 4:00: Drew Spice, MM Concerto Recital (Villa-Lobos concerto)

Put these on your calendar and be sure to attend to hear your peers’ performances.

DMA candidate Jac Mandel will give his third DMA Recital on Thursday, September 30 at 5:30 in the Recital Hall of the USC School of Music. The 20th-century program will include Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, Nikita Koshkin’s Andante quasi Passacaglia e Toccata (The Fall of Birds), Francis Kleynjans’ Arabesque, and the Five Bagatelles of William Walton.

To the downloads page for lessons I have added: Adolphe Christiani’s table describing the various types of musicians from his 1885 Principles of Expression; a page of cadences in all major and minor keys I had originally envisioned as a fold-out page to be included in my Giuliani Revisited; and my Fingerboard Harmony Primer, which explores basic triads throughout the fingerboard and how these can be used to develop a better knowledge of functional harmony on the guitar.

Fall classes start at USC on Thursday, August 19. We’ve got a great year coming up. For an early start, I’ll be giving a free, 30-minute concert on Tuesday, August 3 at 12:00 noon at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church at 900 Calhoun Street in Columbia. Music by Moreno-Torroba, Llobet, and more!

Last summer I posted on my blog at pristinemadness an extensive look at André Segovia’s relationship to J. S. Bach’s chaconne from the d minor partita for solo violin. His role as transcriber is not quite what guitarists have been lead to believe since Segovia recorded it in 1955. Go here for a link to that post.