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Andres Segovia

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Noun1.Andres Segovia - Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987)


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``In the last decade, everyone was trying as hard as they could to cross over into jazz, into pop, into so many areas,'' said Fisk, the last direct pupil of Spanish guitar legend Andres Segovia and a professor at the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music.
In fact, that's how she was discovered by legendary Latin band leader Xavier Cugat, who immediately brought the 16-year-old bombshell to the States after seeing her perform on television with Andres Segovia, considered the father of classical guitar.
By the time he and Nureyev met in 1963, Hurok had been booking the best in the business for more than half a century, Melba and Chaliapin; Pavlova, Duncan, and Mary Wigman; Andres Segovia, Artur Rubenstein, Van Cliburn, and Marian Anderson.
 
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