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Agustín Llamas: "We are talking about putting into value the legacy left us by an unrepeatable guitarist, a genius of music whose most universal contribution was not only his interpretive ability, but the invention of 10-string guitar."
The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Agustín Llamas, reported this morning that the Lorca Consistory will launch, following the unanimous agreement taken in the June Ordinary Plenum by all municipal groups, a commission of experts to the preparation of a project for the creation and implementation of the Narciso Yepes Museum.
Agustín Llamas said that "the launching of a museum dedicated to the life and work of this famous Lorca composer would bring a new cultural value to the city, which would join the great variety of rooms with what already counts the City of The main objective of this commission is to define the characteristics that this new museum should bring together, the possibilities of location, as well as the pieces that could house in its interior. speaking of putting into value the legacy left us by an unrepeatable guitarist, a genius of music whose most universal contribution was not only his interpretive ability, but the invention of 10-string guitar, an instrument that allowed him to achieve multiple records and notes , enriching his music in an outstanding way.
The Narciso Yepes Museum Commission will be formed by Ignacio Yepes, son of Narciso Yepes, professor of transverse flute of the Conservatory of Cuenca and orchestra conductor;
José Durán, student of Narciso Yepes, guitar teacher of the Conservatory Narciso Yepes de Lorca;
Marcos de la Cruz, director of the Conservatory Narciso Yepes de Lorca;
Andrés Martínez, director of the Archaeological Museum of Lorca;
Cristóbal Vogúmil-Abellán de la Rosa, professor of Musicology of the Conservatory of Murcia and professor of the Berkley School of Valencia;
Antonio Manzanera, director of the Band and Municipal School of Music of Lorca;
Simón Ángel Ros, architect;
José A. Jódar, clarinet teacher at the Conservatorio Narciso Yepes de Lorca;
José M. Mañogil, secretary of the Conservatory Narciso Yepes de Lorca;
Carlos González, lutier and director of the Antonio de Torres Museum in Almería;
Lorenzo Ferra, IES professor San Juan Bosco;
María García, architect and head of planning of the City of Lorca.
Llamas Gómez recalled that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the great guitarist Lorca, whose death took place on May 3, 1997 in Murcia.
Narciso García Yepes was born on November 14, 1927 in the hamlet of Marchena.
His childhood was spent in a country house, in the bosom of a family of farmers.
In spite of this circumstance, the father of Narciso knew to respect the illusion of the small one in learning to play the guitar, and one day of September in 1931 he bought to him, a small, and of toy, in a fair of the town.
His father taught him to tune the instrument, and two weeks later he was able to imitate all sorts of melodies.
At age 6 he began to receive music and guitar lessons.
His first steps are in the Teatro Guerrade Lorca and on local radio.
At the age of 13, Narciso began his studies at the Institute of Middle Schools and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia, where they moved to the start of the civil war.
Thus he met the veteran Juan Lamonte de Grignón, creator of the Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Band of Barcelona, ​​who in his last years directed the Symphony of Valencia.
His real master was, since 1943, the composer Vicente Asencio, who made him question the limitations of the techniques of interpretation to play the guitar.
With 17 years gives its first concert in the Serrano Theater of Valencia.
That same year (1944) ends in Valencia the bachelor and the music career, in which he obtained extraordinary prize in all the subjects, and returns with his family to Lorca.
A little over a year later, the great orchestra conductor Ataúlfo Argenta, agreed to the request of the young Narcissus and heard him play the guitar.
Immediately he took it to Madrid, aware of his talent.
The most important moment at the beginning of his professional career is provided by Ataúlfo Argenta, when he presents the teacher Joaquin Rodrigo.
After playing for him, he agrees to perform his Concierto de Aranjuezel on December 17, 1947 at the Teatro Español in Madrid, next to the Chamber Orchestra of the capital, directed by Argenta.
Since then, Narciso's performances have taken place in Madrid, Paris, and then through many capital cities and important cities around the world.
His version of AranjuezeraConcierto a success where interpreted, and recorded for the first time in 1954, directed by Ataulfo ​​Argenta, becoming the best selling album in Europe, America and Japan for several years.
Narciso then moved to Paris, the center of European culture, for three years.
There he receives classes from the Romanian master George Enescu (also professor of the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin) and the Parisian Nadia Boulanger.
It has given an average of 130 recitals per year and has the most extensive nightclub recorded so far by a guitarist.
In 1965 he would perform in Berlin with a new instrument devised by himself: the 10-string guitar, with which he solved the limitations of the traditional model.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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