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John Williams & Berta Rojas in Top Form at London Concert

In July 21, 2018, John Williams was at the Globe Theatre in London’s Southwark Borough beside the River Thames for a concert with Paraguayan virtuoso Berta Rojas. The venue was the intimate Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the indoor hall adjoining the open-air Globe Theatre, a replica of the venue where Shakespeare’s works were staged. Four chandeliers holding flickering candles lit the Wanamaker stage for a capacity audience of 340 seated on benches in the pit in front of the stage and in galleries at stage-level and above on either side of the stage. Every seat is close to the performers, and the hall’s acoustics are perfect for unamplified classical guitar.

In a bit of magnanimous programming, Williams opened the concert. He introduced his first numbers: three dances from Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius (1571–1621). He told the crowd that they were selected from a collection of more than 300 dances penned by the German composer who lived around the time of Queen Elizabeth I, making Praetorius also a contemporary of Shakespeare. The “Courante” and “Ballet” were notable for their stately melodies and “La Volta” for its brisk pace. All three demonstrated Williams’ ability to clearly articulate all lines in a polyphonic tex

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The Barrios Renaissance: The Great Paraguayan Composer/Guitarist has Never Been More Popular

BY MARK SMALL | FROM THE SPRING 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR

The recent wave of interest in the music of Agustín Barrios Mangoré, as powerful as it is surprising, continues to surge across the guitar world. It’s been more than three decades since editions of Barrios’ compositions became widely available, and today, an ever-growing number of guitarists are mining the Barrios catalog. This point of arrival, however, took about a century to reach.

Born in 1885 in San Juan Bautista de las Misiones in southern Paraguay, Barrios undertook formal studies with Gustavo Sosa Escalada, who schooled him in the Sor and Aguado guitar methods. At 25, Barrios left Paraguay, and as a concert guitarist he visited and/or lived in 20 Latin American countries and in Europe. He spent his final years in El Salvador, where he died in 1944 at 59. After his passing, his reputation was kept alive by a coterie of friends, former students, and performers.

Today, acclaimed Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas proclaims Barrios a “national treasure” in Paraguay. During his lifetime and afterwards, Barrios was celebrated as a performer and composer in Latin America, but it took time for the rest of the world to ca