CGA's Best Interview excerpts

2001 Interview with Thomas Humphrey, guitar builder, for the Classical Guitar Alive radio program, by Tony Morris

Thomas Humphrey interview excerpt

Grammy winner David Russell talks about his and Maria Russell's NGO which builds wells for drinking water in Africa. For more information, and to make a contribution, visit their website:
http://www.davidrussellguitar.com/NGO/

David Russell interview excerpt

A sneak preview of this week's Classical Guitar Alive radio program featuring banjo player, arranger, composer Bela Fleck, who talks about his Grammy-winning classical recording "Perpetual Motion."

Bela Fleck interview excerpt  Classical Guitar Alive archive

From this week's Classical Guitar Alive radio program, which features Christmas music: an interview excerpt with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd. 
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12-51 Liona Boyd Interview excerpt (with music bed)

From Classical Guitar Alive radio program episode 11-52 "Best of 2011": an interview with Australian composer Russell Sarre, whose "Lyric Suite" for guitar and string quartet are featured on this week's program 

Russell Sarre CGA 2011  interview

A brief excerpt from David Crittenden's interview, which airs this week on Classical Guitar Alive radio program, in which he speaks about his piece "One More for Wallace Hartley," which was inspired by the bandleader aboard the Titanic. 

More of the interview airs on this week's Classical Guitar Alive, and the entire piece closes the program.

David Crittenden Interview teaser CGA 12-03 "One More for Wallace Hartley"

A sneak preview of this week's Classical Guitar Alive radio program: an interview snippet with Johannes Moller, and music from his Naxos recording. Visit ClassicalGuitarAlive.org for more information about stations and times, and check out our page on FaceBook.

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Johannes Moller Interview CGA Teaser

Eliot Fisk Interview teaser for this week's Classical Guitar Alive radio program:

Eliot Fisk CGA Interview Teaser

A sneak preview of this week's Classical Guitar Alive radio program, which features interviews with Muriel Anderson and the Hanser-McClellan Duo. Here's a bit from Muriel Anderson's interview:

Muriel Anderson Interview snippet SOUNDCLOUD

Classical Guitar Alive interview with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, recorded in San Antonio, Texas in 2000 at the Guitar Foundation of America festival with Classical Guitar Alive Executive Producer Tony Morris and Classical Guitar Alive Director of Development, Renata Green.

Leo Brouwer discusses his Concierto Elegiaco, which was dedicated to Julian Bream.

Leo Brouwer 2000 interview for Classical Guitar Alive

From the April Fool's edition of Classical Guitar Alive, which features unusual recordings, Scott Tennant talks about his Delos recording project, "Mozart TV," which featured tv themes recomposed in the styles of famous composers. 

Classical Guitar Alive interview: Scott Tennant on his Mr. Ed tv show record

In this 1998 Classical Guitar Alive interview, Manuel Barrueco speaks about the difficulties his family faced in leaving Cuba when he was 14 years old. 

1998 Classical Guitar Alive interview: Barrueco on Cuba

An excerpt from an interview with Pepe Romero, originally broadcast  on the Classical Guitar Alive radio program.

Classical Guitar Alive Interview: Pepe Romero's pre-concert ritual

From the early Classical Guitar Alive radio program archives, a 1999 interview with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd, who spoke about her autobiography "My Life in Love and Music," in which she spoke about her concert career and her 8 year affair with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

1999 Classical Guitar Alive interview: Liona Boyd

The world's most-recorded lutenist, Paul O'Dette talks about the rise of early music as a consequence of modern music.

Classical Guitar Alive 2001 interview: Paul O'Dette on early music's rise

2000 interview with lutenist Paul O'Dette, who talks about John Dowland.

Classical Guitar Alive interview archive: Paul O'Dette on Dowland

From a 2000 Classical Guitar Alive interview, Cuban composer Leo Brouwer talks about the injury to his right hand that ended his performing career as a guitarist, which occurred right before his New York debut!

Brouwer's right hand accident

This interview supplied by Verve Records was broadcast on the flamenco edition of Classical Guitar Alive. 

Paco de Lucia on Flamenco

From the "Competitions" episode of Classical Guitar Alive, Jason Vieaux tells of his experience at the finals of the Guitar Foundation of America competition.

Classical Guitar Alive interview archive: Jason Vieaux on the GFA finals

From the Classical Guitar Alive radio program interview archive- this was my first interview with John Williams, back in 1998. Classical Guitar Alive had only been nationally-broadcast for one year, and it was a real treat to interview one of my favorite guitarists. 

In this interview, Williams talks about his preference for guitars build by Australian guitar maker Greg Smallman over traditional Spanish-style constructed guitars.

John Williams on Smallman guitars vs traditional Spanish guitars

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