Nataly Makovskaya Plays Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavan
This comes from the YouTube channel of Roman Gurochkin:
Old Gals, Too
Here’s my favorite old-timer on YouTube. Her name is Lorna Jack. I found her while I was participating in an online stock market forum, of all things. Somehow the topic veered onto music and one of the participants mentioned that his 84-year-old mother was on YouTube playing piano. I checked it out, not expecting much, and found something beautiful:
Old Guys Playing Guitar
I’ve been noticing some older guys with guitars showing up on YouTube lately. Here’s Ken Speers (69) playing some pretty cool (if you ask me) fingerstyle jazz (When You Wish Upon a Star) with some pretty slick artificial harmonics:
And then again with Lady Be Good:
I think it’s time to start an “Old Guys” category!
New Video from Liona Boyd
Her own composition, Parranda.
Viola Played Like a Guitar: Meghan Engel
Meg says: “I have always loved classical guitar, so i wrote this piece :)”
Julian Bream and Stephane Grappelli play Django’s Nuages!
Isn’t this wonderful! Bream’s description of this performance is one of the highlights in A Life on the Road (written by Tony Palmer). I never thought I’d see it. And Bream’s performance is far better than we were given to believe. Just listen to the quality of Bream’s intro. What a treat!
Pirates of the Caribbean for Guitar and for Organ
I’m a big fan of Sungha Jung. I was browsing through his YouTube videos a few minutes ago (as I often do) and I listened to one I hadn’t heard before, Pirates of the Caribbean. It was pretty good, as usual. But the big WOW! came as I toured through other versions of the same piece and found one by a 9-year-old girl playing some kind of electric organ. What spirited playing! Wonderful stuff.
I’m posting both links, Sungha’s first. If you want to get the full effect, listen to them in order:
How To Hold The Guitar
Tired of the same old way of holding the guitar? Here’s a guy with a better approach:
If You Like Segovia…
…I bet you’ll like Ray Reussner: