Emilio Salinas

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A close encounter with a bison.

Guitar Music I Recorded (a While Ago)

Manuel M Ponce (1982-1948): Prelude in the baroque style (originally attributed to Sylvius Leopold Weiss)

Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986): Six miniatures (transcribed from the piano series "Pour Les Enfants," by Luis Robert)*

Aita Donostia (Padre Jose Antonio de San Sebastian, 1886-1956): Dolor

Jorge Ritter (1957-): Tres Piezas para Guitarra**

Antonio Lauro (1917-1986): Vals Venezolano #3

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968): Sonata for guitar

Recorded in 1987. Emilio Salinas played a Shelton-Farretta guitar.

*An interesting tidbit about these pieces. Alexandre Tansman composed several famous pieces for guitar. These, however, are part of a piano series for children; didactic but brilliant nonetheless. My colleague Luis Robert transcribed them for guitar; I learned them and recorded a demo tape that Luis sent to Tansman in 1985 — and Tansman replied! He wrote a short note, in a very shaky handwriting, saying that he liked the guitar versions very much, and that his only suggestion was to play the first piece, Le Petit Negre, a bit faster. He was so right. I have heard piano versions that are quite slow, as mine was initially, but once you have felt it as a dance, there is no going back. Tansman died the following year.

**Back then I lived in Mexico City, same as Jorge Ritter. His Three Pieces were all the rage when he composed them, in 1982. But they were not published, so if you wanted to play them, you had to get the score from someone that already did. My colleague Alfredo Sanchez Oviedo was kind enough to share them. A few years later Jorge Ritter himself gave me a few pointers about how to play them.

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