{"id":8289,"date":"2011-06-05T20:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T00:25:40","slug":"augustin-barrios-the-great-paraguayan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"August\u00edn Barrios, the Great Paraguayan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-06-05-LISTN-The-Great-Paraguayan-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"11-06-05 LISTN The Great Paraguayan\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-06-05-LISTN-The-Great-Paraguayan-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-06-05-LISTN-The-Great-Paraguayan-768x1099.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-06-05-LISTN-The-Great-Paraguayan-715x1024.jpg 715w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-06-05-LISTN-The-Great-Paraguayan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\"><\/a>If you are bored with the famil\u00adiar reper\u00adtoire for clas\u00adsi\u00adcal gui\u00adtar (what you might call the Segov\u00adian Canon), then you might try the com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions of the Paraguayan poly\u00admath August\u00edn Bar\u00adrios (1885\u20131944). Gui\u00adtarist John Williams has led the revival of his work. A poet, math\u00ade\u00admati\u00adcian and jour\u00adnal\u00adist, as well as a per\u00adformer and com\u00adpos\u00ader, Bar\u00adrios was a Paraguayan mes\u00adti\u00adzo, flu\u00adent in the Guaran\u00ed Indi\u00adan lan\u00adguage as well as Span\u00adish. His com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions are warm, imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive, and vir\u00adtu\u00adosic enough to chal\u00adlenge and excite any gui\u00adtarist. Yet under\u00adneath they have a sol\u00adid archi\u00adtec\u00adture. For exam\u00adple, the piece called <em>La Cat\u00ade\u00addral<\/em> seems as del\u00adi\u00adcate as a snowflake, but it\u2019s struc\u00adture is as strong and dis\u00adci\u00adplined as a Bach par\u00adti\u00adta. Most of the pieces that I heard have this \u201cfloat like a but\u00adter\u00adfly, sting like a bee\u201d qual\u00adi\u00adty. Oth\u00ader pieces that espe\u00adcial\u00adly move me are <em>Una Limosna Por el Amor de Dios<\/em>, <em>Acon\u00adqui\u00adja<\/em>, <em>Max\u00adixe<\/em>, and <em>Ch\u00f4ro da Saudade<\/em>. But, they are not excep\u00adtions: every piece I\u2019ve heard is worth lis\u00adten\u00ading to sev\u00ader\u00adal times. Paraguayan folk music influ\u00adenced his work as much as the famil\u00adiar baroque and clas\u00adsi\u00adcal sources, giv\u00ading it a flavour you won\u2019t find else\u00adwhere. Williams offers sev\u00ader\u00adal record\u00adings. I\u2019m lis\u00adten\u00ading to <em>The Great Paraguayan<\/em>, which offers sev\u00aden\u00adteen rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are bored with the famil\u00adiar reper\u00adtoire for clas\u00adsi\u00adcal gui\u00adtar (what you might call the Segov\u00adian Canon), then you might try the com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions of the Paraguayan poly\u00admath August\u00edn Bar\u00adrios (1885\u20131944). Gui\u00adtarist John Williams has led the revival of&nbsp;his&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8289\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,929],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cp-listening-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}