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A great interview with Luis Maravilla. My fav part.
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El Gloria sang accompanied by a Madrid player named Manuel Bonet. He sang well and won the contest. I was with my father, who called out to him "Sing siguiriyas". And El Gloria said "Sure, but send your son down to play for me." And I did.
RE: Flamenco interview collection (in reply to devilhand)
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A great interview with Luis Maravilla.
Thank you for posting. Enjoyed reading his stories being around the 19th/20th century greats and the flamenco evolutions at the time. 35 years ago he saw the decline of cante, though still had hope!
"The cante today? I don’t know. I don’t know. Look at Camarón who — well, he’s here (“bueno, esta ahi“). There are other singers with names, but… well, remember you’re talking with a 76-year-old man who has lived in other eras, and the present one doesn’t say much to him. I know there’s Camarón, Enrique Morente, El Lebrijano… but I hope someone new arrives and remedies the situation, and raises up the art again. Because the cante can’t die. You have to renovate and enrich it…"
RE: Flamenco interview collection (in reply to Ricardo)
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many good interviews within the documentaries.
Unfortunately some of the videos are taken down.
Getting back to the interview with Pascual de Lorca in my first post above, at 1:50 Pascual said he learned flamenco guitar from maestro Palmita who was a pupil of Javier Molina. Interesting to know that Palmita is the grandfather of Mercedes Lujan. The biography on her homepage says she learned the toque from her grandfather.
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