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Deny Fear
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📷 Steve McCurry, Brazil, from On Reading ||| "Our doubt is our passion, & our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." - Henry James

Feb 21, 2022, 5 tweets

Remembering Andrés Segovia on his birthday 🎂
📷 Erich Auerbach, 1963
"Unable to find a teacher, he guided himself and would say in later years with a smile, 'To this day, teacher & pupil have never had a serious quarrel'."
- Donal Henahan

Andres Segovia by Nickolas Muray
Vanity Fair, 1928
Watch Christopher Nupen's film of Segovia's concert at the Alhambra, from 1976

Heitor Villa-Lobos & Andres Segovia sign the guestbook at the Centro Guitarristico in Montevideo.

... and an English translation.
Villa-Lobos & Segovia were close friends. Here's his Third Prelude played by Segovia:

From an interview with the great cellist Aldo Parisot, this great bit about Heitor Villa-Lobos & Andres Segovia.
"Villa-Lobos & Segovia would tell jokes to each other in Portuguese, usually dirty."

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