Week 4: Music from Latin America! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the last week of the "Music from Latin America" challenge!
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Brouwer - Estudio Sencillo No 5
Definitely one of the quirkier ones!
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joosje Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean by "scout" and "crispy" here. It's not my favorite music, to be honest.
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Brouwer - Estudio Sencillo No 6
The next few days will be difficult for me to practice, but I can at least continue to post these studies, as I recorded them earlier.
I still remember when my one-and-only classical guitar teacher showed me this study back around 1991. My first thought? This Brouwer guy stole that from Randy Rhodes, the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne! My teacher then smiled and pointed to the 1972 date at the bottom.
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Eric Phillips Well played Eric. I dug this one out the other day to try and teach someone!
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Derek It's such an interesting chord progression.
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Eric Phillips Well done, Eric. I'm afraid your 'Ozzy O
Osborne' reference is lost on me. I don't really pay attention to the new rock music (pretty much anything after Hendrix). -
Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. Google "Brouwer Ozzy" and you'll see how the guitarist with Ozzy (Randy Rhodes) ripped off Leo Brouwer's Study 6 for the intro to a song. I heard that he was actually taking some classical guitar lessons, and he liked this study that his teacher gave him, and so he put it into the song.
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Eric Phillips oh, great. I love this one. Seldom a day without it for me. You play play it so wel. Great tone.
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joosje Thank you, Joosje. It seems like it would be a good warm-up for both hands.
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Eric Phillips Great interpretation! I'm sure that Randy didn't do so well!
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Moyses Lopes Thanks, Moyses. Randy simplified the arpeggio, and only played a few measures of it. His hair was nicer than mine, though.
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Eric Phillips Very beautiful! This is also one of my favorite. Every time I listened to this piece, my mind would see those flower blooming timelapse videos, they are a perfect match.
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For my last post of this incredible challenge, I am posting three short pieces by the Argentine composer/guitarist, Juan Alais (1844 - 1914). These three pieces were written for guitar and arranged/edited by Abel Carlevaro. Juan Alais is thought to have been one of the first (if not the first) Argentine composer who wrote for the classical guitar. As you will hear, his music draws upon traditional Argentine folk music. Since I will be out of town for the next couple of days, I want to say how much I enjoyed this challenge and being able to share with you the music of Abel Carlevaro. I also greatly enjoyed all the great posts and hearing some new as well as familiar wonderful pieces. See you all at the Watch party.
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Dale Needles I love that, Dale! I had never heard of Alais, and I really like listening to and learning about the lesser known music for the guitar. I will have to look him up so I can play some myself.
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Dale Needles Wonderful Dale. That's some nice music and very well played.
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Dale Needles This is so cool, I love the folkelements so much!
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@Dale Needles Beautiful,Dale. I also like the folk element in these works. They provide a window into the culture.
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Dale Needles this is very nice music. Great playing, Dale!
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Dale Needles Bravo! You were born in the US but have a foot in Latin America, for sure!
Thank you for bringing us so many beautiful pieces! 
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Dale Needles Thank you for sharing all those great music by Maestro Abel Carlevaro, I really enjoyed listening to your playing and his music.
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Wai Thanks! I am really glad you enjoyed all those Carlevaro pieces.
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my last posts will be those two Tangos of Piazzola, the one arranged by M.Langer, the second arranged by Gary Ryan, thet I appreciate much. This is for advanced beginners- I hope you excuse my notso sdvanced playing...
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Nice Stefanie
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Another great performance, Stefanie. This is another new work to me. Thanks for presenting these beautiful works.
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz nice job, Stefanie. It sounds really good. I didn’t know these arrangements. Thanks for introducing them to us.
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joosje thank you! we saw how beautiful the Piazzolaarrangements of Moyse Lopez are!!! If you see those- but they are for not so advanced players to lead them to that music
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