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attila57 -> RE: Ivor Mairants CD (Oct. 31 2012 11:49:50)
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Thanks, Francis, that you've posted side A as well. It's really great to have this recording. It's very interesting to hear Paco Pena play when he was so young. The falsetas he uses and the way he combines them come back in his later recordings, too.It's interesting to note that Paco used the 4-stroke classical tremolo in his early days but in later publications he seems to have switched to the 5-stroke flamenco tremolo.
I find it amazing that this Mairants book (and the CD) still causes such a big stir.
It has become clear to me by now, that the whole material is Paco Pena's. He was so young at that time, that probably he had no means to publish a method alone. When Paco went to England as a virtuoso player, he was on BBC screen several times introducing and 'teaching' flamenco. You can still see some of these appearances on youtube, when Paco is still in his early twenties. Ivor, who was at his best around that time, teaching and performing his stuff, plus establishing his own shop and music centre, must have realized the potential of flamenco in Britain, and got Paco to do the project together. There's a company (which, I think, must have been made by Ivor) to publish this book, called Latin-American Publishing Co. Ivor Mairants would be 104 years old now. He established a guitar shop in 1958, just when this flamenco book was published, and the company is still going strong in London. You can check their homepage. I think, he must have organized Paco Pena's appearances on TV as well, because he was a well-known media personality that time.
It's a shame, though, that Paco wasn't (and still isn't) given the full credit for his part, all the music, and the CD performance. OK, he had a contract with another publishing house that time, but still, to me it's strange that neither his name nor his photo appears anywhere.
Click on this link for album details: http://www.moondoor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ken/albums/details/256.html,
Bye
Attila
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