Mar
30
Here are a couple videos from my Hope College concert (March 29th, 2012).
Greenwood:
Leyenda:
I should get the complete concert up sometime this next week.
Enjoy!
Rob
Also available at my website: www.robertlunncomposer.com
Mar
24
Next Thursday (March 29th) I will be giving a classical guitar concert at Hope College. The program will be:
I.
Canción del Emperador (Luys de Narváez)
Guardame Las Vacas
Greenwood (Robert Lunn)
Suite for Two Guitars (William Lawes)
Larry Malfroid, Guitar
II.
Prelude No. 1 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Two Childhood Sketches (Robert Lunn)
Sam’s Lullaby
The Andy Dance
Castles of Spain (Federico Moreno Torroba)
Romance de Los Pinos
Sigüenza
Manzanares del Real
Scarborough Fair Traditional
House of the Rising Sun (Arr. Lunn)
III.
Evensong (Robert Lunn)
Melancholy (Robert Lunn)
Lucidity
Leyenda (Isaac Albéniz)
I love to start my concerts with the pieces by Narváez. Besides the fact that they sound nice, they give me a chance to settle down and focus on playing.
I’m looking forward to the Suite for Two Guitars. Larry Malfroid was my guitar professor at Hope College. He is the reason why I fell in love with this instrument. We first played this piece together many moons ago on my senior recital. We performed it again in 2002 when I was teaching at Hope College.
The prelude by Villa-lobos is one of my favorite classical guitar pieces. I would say it is my 2nd favorite all-time with the gold medal going to Leyenda by Albéniz.
The Castles of Spain pieces are wonderful miniatures written by Torroba. Originally composed for Andres Segovia. From what I have read it is difficult to tell how much is Torroba’s and how much is Segovia’s. Segovia would often make many changes to works composed by a non-guitarist.
Finally, I am looking forward to performing my own pieces and arrangements. I have performed all of these pieces before, except for House of the Rising Sun and Lucidity. It is always interesting performing a piece for the first time. Live performances really show you how well you actually know the piece.
Here is a little blurb from a local news station: http://hollandzeeland.wzzm13.com/news/arts-culture/67548-classical-guitarist-robert-lunn-perform-march-29
-Rob
