{"id":9605,"date":"2018-04-09T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:56:33","slug":"honoring-claude-debussy-jon-mendle-plays-la-fille-aux-cheveux-de-lin-on-an-11-string-archguitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/honoring-claude-debussy-jon-mendle-plays-la-fille-aux-cheveux-de-lin-on-an-11-string-archguitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Claude Debussy: Jon Mendle Plays &#8216;La Fille aux cheveux de lin&#8217; on an 11-String Archguitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I managed to overlook the centenary of the death of French composer Claude Debussy a couple of weeks ago (he died March 25, 1918). Now, I know he was not a composer for the guitar, but a number of his sublime Impressionist piano works (and other pieces) have been translated to guitar (particularly for guitar duos), and I&#8217;ve really fallen in love with quite a few of them, so I wanted to mark the occasion by posting a video of another piece that was previously unfamiliar to me:\u00a0<em>La Fille aux cheveux de lin<\/em> (which translates as &#8220;The girl with flaxen hair&#8221;). The piece, which was completed in early 1910 and published in June of that year, was the eighth in Debussy&#8217;s first book of Preludes. The composer took his inspiration from a passionate love poem by French writer Leconte de Lisle (1818\u20131894).<\/p>\n<p>This exquisite piece is performed here by San Francisco-based guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/jonmendle.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Mendle<\/a>, who is a product of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music&#8217;s undergraduate and graduate programs, and has carved out an interesting career for himself working often as a chamber musician\u2014he&#8217;s a member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet and several years ago toured with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Additionally, he teaches both privately and at\u00a0Pacific Union College in Angwin, California (two hours north of SF). He is a specialist in 19th century music and usually performs either on a contemporary reproduction of a 7-string heptacorde (famously championed by Napol\u00e9on Coste) or an 11-string Archguitar, which he calls &#8220;a hybrid of early and modern guitars, making it ideal to play a wide range of early music as well as certain modern and impressionist works.&#8221; This particular instrument was crafted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlmanguitars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Perlman<\/a> in 2007.\u00a0 A beautiful instrument playing a beautiful piece.\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I managed to overlook the centenary of the death of French composer Claude Debussy a couple of weeks ago (he died March 25, 1918). Now, I know he was not a composer for the guitar, but a number of his sublime Impressionist piano works (and other pieces) have been translated to guitar (particularly for guitar duos), and I&#8217;ve really fallen in love with quite a few of them, so I wanted to mark the occasion by posting a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9608,"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-9605","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\/04\/mendle.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}