Andres Segovia, the beloved Spanish guitarist universally credited with bringing the guitar to the forefront of the concert world, died Tuesday in Madrid of heart failure. In his 94 years, the maestro ...

Fifty-eight years ago, an aspiring young musician named Andres Segovia walked onto the stage of Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to offer a tiny audience one of the first classical guitar recitals ever heard ...

DURING the classical guitar craze of the early 1970s, I was commissioned to write a piece on new guitarists for a national record magazine. I picked half a dozen exciting young instrumentalists and ...

Classical guitarist Pablo Villegas has been called the "natural heir" to Andres Segovia, the great Spanish guitarist of the 20th century who became the best-known ambassador for the guitar as a ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1853, Solomon Northrop regains his freedom following his kidnapping and being sold into slavery. He would later write a memoir, 12 Years a Slave, which would ...

WHEN you’re talking classical guitar, there are two names to remember – Andres Segovia, who died at age 94 in 1987, and his American student with the boyish face, Christopher Parkening. Parkening, who ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...