{"id":8238,"global_id":"www.thevillagetrip.com?id=8238","global_id_lineage":["www.thevillagetrip.com?id=8238"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-07-10 04:51:09","date_utc":"2023-07-10 08:51:09","modified":"2023-09-05 04:50:31","modified_utc":"2023-09-05 08:50:31","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/tvt-guitarfest-2\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/8238","title":"The Village Trip GuitarFest II \u2013 Mel Powell Centenary \u2013 My Guy\u2019s Come Back","description":"
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[Image: Mel Powell and Benny Goodman]<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1940s during the height of the Swing era, Mel Powell wrote songs for the Benny Goodman Orchestra \u2014 songs like, \u201cMy Guy\u2019s Come Back\u201d (1945). Powell\u2019s path forward through the wide open musical possibilities of the postwar decades led him to win a Pulitzer Prize for his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.<\/p>\n

The Village Trip GuitarFest explores these postwar spaces and what\u2019s become of them. British composer John Duarte was put on the map by Andres Segovia. Duarte\u2019s \u201cJoan Baez Suite\u201d makes a surprising link between the world of legendary guitarist Andres Segovia and the Greenwich Village of Joan Baez. Damon Ferrante\u2019s \u201cBeyond the Line of Blue \u201c are settings of Edgar Allen Poe for two guitars and mezzo Jessica Bowers. Volver a los 19, by Felipe Pinto d\u2019Aguiar was commissioned by Fundaci\u00f3n Guitarra Viva Ernesto Quezada for Chilean guitarist Sebastian Molina. Martin Rokeach\u2019s award-winning Fantasy on 12-Strings opens the program.<\/p>\n

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