Wednesday 22 & Sunday 29 February 2012

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str / 8.30pm

Entrance: Free

Screening: Andrés Segovia in Portrait
Director: Christopher Nupen
Language: English with English subtitles

With the support of the Embassy of Spain

Andrés Segovia in Portrait comprises two films: Segovia at Los Olivos and The Song of the Guitar, which will be shown on February 22 and 29 respectively

This portrait celebrates the extraordinary quest of Andrés Segovia, the Andalusian par excellence who, in his childhood, fell in love with the sounds of the Spanish guitar and within 20 years had elevated it from the status of a folk instrument to the highest levels of the international concert platform. His achievement is among the marvels of Western music. These two very different Christopher Nupen films are Segovia at Los Olivos (Wednesday 22 February), shot in Segovia’s new home on the Costa del Sol in Andalucia in 1967, when he was 75, and thought by Segovia to be the best thing he ever did for television, and the prize-winning Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar (Sunday 29 February), filmed in Granada and the Palaces of the Alhambra in 1976 when the Grand Master was 84.

The film features music by Albeniz, Bach, Scarlatti, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Granados, Sor, Rameau, Tarrega, Torroba.
 

Embassy of Spain