Concert Of 250 Guitars

Each year in March, there's an event here in Spain, celebrating the Festival of Guitars. I attended only one, the 20th edition, on my birthday 4 years ago, to me a rather impressive concert with 250 professional guitarists & advanced students, playing in popular as well as classical concerts. Not in the scale of that other event in Germany or Japan (can't remember which) when there were nearly 2000 people playing the electric guitars together, like 'Smoke on the water' or 'Deep Purple'. That Mecca concert of unusual formation was in L'Auditori, Barcelona, to inaugurate the 20th Festival of Guitars. The nucleus is the 'Orquesta de Guitarras de Barcelona' (OGB), founded and directed by Sergi Vicente in the 2nd part. The 1st was be to pay homage to the famous Cuban guitarist and composer, Leo Brouwer, also to celebrate his 70th birthday. With the cost of €900,000 and organised by 'Project', the musical promoter, that edition presented one of their most ample and extended programme. With styles from Flamenco to pop, including jazz, blues, rock, and songs of authors, in the epigraph of the festival of the phrase 'the other chord', in which the guitars did not have a specific or traditional function. Precisely because of that some die-hard traditional & classical musicians objected and criticised for days before and afterwards, but the huge success reflected by public attendance and media reports were decidedly positive. If people forever hold on to their views and rejects any kind of change, nothing new or better would ever be discovered & our world would never progress. Tags:guitarconcert

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