Hard to believe that next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Los Romeros guitar quartet; remarkably, two of the original members, brothers Pepe and Celin Romero, are still going strong; their late father, Celedonio, and younger brother Angel, have been replaced over time by Celin’s son Celino and Angel’s son Lito. I saw them perform at La Guitarra California a few years ago and they were extremely impressive, playing together and in smaller configurations and solo.<\/p>\n
Here, in a video shot at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 2009 (on the occasion of their 50th anniversary), the quartet plays El baile de Luis Alonso<\/em>, from a Romantic zarzuela<\/em> (a popular theatrical form developed in Spain which combines dramatic singing, dance and spoken word) written in 1896 by composer Ger\u00f3nimo Gim\u00e9nez (1852\u20131923). What a fun ride! \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hard to believe that next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Los Romeros guitar quartet; remarkably, two of the original members, brothers Pepe and Celin Romero, are still going strong; their late father, Celedonio, and younger brother Angel, have been replaced over time by Celin’s son Celino and Angel’s son Lito. I saw them perform at La Guitarra California a few years ago and they were extremely impressive, playing together and in smaller configurations and solo. Here, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/romeros.png?fit=630%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}