{"id":8573,"date":"2017-12-07T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:42:12","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-gohar-vardanyan-plays-manolo-sanlucars-colombiana-de-bajo-guia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-gohar-vardanyan-plays-manolo-sanlucars-colombiana-de-bajo-guia\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Gohar Vardanyan Plays Manolo Sanl\u00facar&#8217;s &#8216;Colombiana de Bajo Guia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every video I&#8217;ve watched by Armenian-born guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goharvardanyan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gohar Vardanyan <\/a>has been sensational! It&#8217;s not surprising, then, to learn that she studied guitar with the likes of Antigoni Goni, Sharon Isbin, and Manuel Barrueco. In turn, she&#8217;s become a fine teacher herself, has written several books for Mel Bay, and offered lessons\/tips through Strings By Mail on YouTube. (Check out her new, extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=gohar+vardanyan+guitar+etudes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Guitar Etudes<\/em><\/a> series on YouTube!) She shared the cover of the May 2014 issue of <em>CG<\/em> with Matt Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this particular video because I thought it was interesting and fun to hear a really talented classical guitarist playing a fairly well-known flamenco piece on a classical guitar (made by Canadian luthier Jean Rompr\u00e9). Sanlucar was described by <em>CG<\/em> writer Jason Webster in our <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/modern-masters-of-flamenco-guitar-part-1-manolo-sanlucar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spring 2016 issue<\/a> as &#8220;a contemporary of Paco de Luc\u00eda and co-instigator of the late-20th-century revolution in flamenco. . .\u00a0Like many of his contemporaries, Sanl\u00facar started to experiment with his chosen art form, pushing flamenco in new directions, and extending its boundaries. As he later commented, &#8216;We realized that the guitar needed to be harmonically enriched; flamenco guitar [at the time] was harmonically impoverished.&#8217;\u00a0Sanl\u00facar&#8217;s original recording of the tune dates back to the 1971 album <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2j4mJP5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mundo y Formas de la Guitarra Flamenca Vol. 1. <\/a>\u00a0he retired from performing several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it to others to decide whether this passes some nebulous flamenco &#8220;authenticity&#8221; test. I just like it!\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every video I&#8217;ve watched by Armenian-born guitarist Gohar Vardanyan has been sensational! It&#8217;s not surprising, then, to learn that she studied guitar with the likes of Antigoni Goni, Sharon Isbin, and Manuel Barrueco. In turn, she&#8217;s become a fine teacher herself, has written several books for Mel Bay, and offered lessons\/tips through Strings By Mail on YouTube. (Check out her new, extensive Guitar Etudes series on YouTube!) She shared the cover of the May 2014 issue of CG with Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8576,"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-8573","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\/2017\/12\/Gohar.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","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=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}