{"id":42322,"date":"2018-03-21T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarcorner.com\/?p=42322"},"modified":"2024-06-30T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:51:18","slug":"member-spotlight-rick-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarcorner.com\/member-spotlight-rick-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Lord Classical Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this month’s Classical Guitar Corner Academy Member Spotlight we’re featuring member Rick Lord. Rick has been a member at CGC Academy for almost exactly a year! Rick is an exceptionally gifted player and his YouTube page has examples of many performances, all of which are high quality. The below video is a performance of “Capricho \u00c1rabe” by Francisco T\u00e1rrega<\/a> and it shows a great deal of progress and polish on the piece from where Rick first started with it.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of next month Rick will be giving a public recital, fulfilling one of his goals from his progress journal at CGCA. Offer your congratulations to Rick in the comments below!<\/p>\n

“Capricho \u00c1rabe” was composed by Francisco T\u00e1rrega in 1892 after a visit to Granada (which is of course home to the Arab palace and fortress “La Alhambra”). The title bears the dedication to his friend Tom\u00e1s Bret\u00f3n, also a Spanish composer and conductor. Capricho (along with T\u00e1rrega’s other “Alhambrismo” pieces, Danza Mora and Recuerdos de la Alhambra) is a wonderful example of the deep Arabic influences common to Spain’s nationalistic music, but also of the romanticism of late-nineteenth-century music in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n