{"id":14087,"date":"2019-11-21T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14087"},"modified":"2020-06-10T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:52:44","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-its-tarregas-birthday-watch-sharon-isbin-play-capricho-arabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-its-tarregas-birthday-watch-sharon-isbin-play-capricho-arabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: It&#8217;s T\u00e1rrega&#8217;s Birthday! Watch Sharon Isbin Play &#8216;Capricho \u00c1rabe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m doing my math correctly (and I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> bad at math), November 21, 2019, is the 167th birthday of the great Spanish guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francisco_T%C3%A1rrega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francisco T\u00e1rrega<\/a> (1852\u20131909)\u2014one of the true giants of classical guitar! The occasion is a perfect excuse to indulge in some birthday cake, and also for us to post a video of a virtuoso guitarist playing one of T\u00e1rrega&#8217;s most-loved pieces, the sublime <em>Capricho \u00e1rabe<\/em>, written in 1892. Check out the exquisite tone that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonisbin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Isbin<\/a>\u2014who plays Spanish music as well as anyone\u2014coaxes from her instrument in this wonderful performance from 2017. \u2014<em>Blair Jackson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14091\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tarrega-1-e1574371948641.jpg?resize=500%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m doing my math correctly (and I&#8217;m really bad at math), November 21, 2019, is the 167th birthday of the great Spanish guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher Francisco T\u00e1rrega (1852\u20131909)\u2014one of the true giants of classical guitar! The occasion is a perfect excuse to indulge in some birthday cake, and also for us to post a video of a virtuoso guitarist playing one of T\u00e1rrega&#8217;s most-loved pieces, the sublime Capricho \u00e1rabe, written in 1892. Check out the exquisite tone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14097,"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":[142,141],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","tag-sharon-isbin","tag-tarrega","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/isbin-e1574373198581.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","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=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}