[nabs-l] Blind Composer

[Joshua Hendrickson]

Hello Helga and all.  I am a guitar player myself, and have been
playing for a few years.  I sing at my local church and have helped
out my college by playing at a fund raiser they have had for two
years.  I've even made a bit of money playing the guitar.  I play
traditional gospel and country songs.  I don't use a pick, just my
fingers when playing my chords.  You mentioned blind guitar players,
well, have you ever heard of doc watson?  He was a blind guitar
player, and was extremely good at flat picking.  Here is a youtube
video of his song called Settin on Top of The World.  The link is
http://youtu.be/Y1q4Eb34mwM  I hope you all enjoy it.  If anyone would
like to contact me off list to talk about guitar, they may do so at
louvins at gmail.com.  Have a great day all.  Just a quick note, Doc is
not only playing the guitar in the video, he is also singing as well.

On 5/23/13, Helga <helga.schreiber at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, this is Helga.
> I just wanted to tell you that I’m learning how to play the guitar, and I
> actually took Music Appreciation class this past Spring Semester! I actually
> really like this class. Actually, my Music Appreciation professor send me
> this music video of a Blind composer. As a matter of fact, he told me that
> here is a piece of music from youtube that I mentioned. The guitarist is
> John Williams -  It is a guitar concierto called Concierto de Aranjuez.
>
> Written in 1939 by Joaquin Rodrigo from Spain.  Rodrigo was a blind composer
> for piano, vocal and orchestra and also some guitar.  He lived to be 100
> years old. His wife Victoria helped him with his braille to write music.
> The second movement is considered one of the greatest pieces of guitar music
> ever!
> Guitar conciertos are rare as for the soft sound of the guitar, but there
> are about 10 good ones.  This is the best by far!
> Here is the link of the music video. Hope you guys like it!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Xdlgii-Rc
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Joshua T Hendrickson