This Gigue was written in a baroque style by the 20th century Spanish composer Manuel Ponce. You can find much more information about Ponce's composition here.
This recording is of a live performance at my 1995 senior recital at the University of Georgia. The sound quality isn't the best, given the degradation involved in transferring a cassette tape to the MP3 format. I was playing my 1967 Ramirez guitar, a world-class instrument. Don't miss the scale at the end of the piece.
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This old spiritual was performed by the University of Georgia Mens' Glee Club at the 1995 spring concert. Tommy Heaton -- who had a tenor voice that is better than anyone in the entire world of popular music -- sang the solo. It was an electrifying performance. He had the crowd eating out of his hand.
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This is another selection from my 1995 senior recital at the University of Georgia. Joaquin Rodrigo was a 20th-century Spanish composer who wrote several famous pieces for the classical guitar. The Invocation and Dance is written in two phases: The Invocation portion is somewhat eerie and free-flowing; the Dance portion is very rhythmic. It is a virtuoso piece.
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This is a new-agey-sounding piece that I wrote in college. It has a haunting melody, or so it seems to me. I recorded the keyboard parts on a friend's keyboard, and then went to another friend's recording studio to record the guitar part.
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This is another piece that I wrote and performed in college.
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Also from my 1995 senior recital, this piece was arranged for guitar by UMKC professor Douglas Niedt, whose website describes the piece in more detail. The arrangements features several occasions when the guitarist must snap with both fingers, as well as occasions when the guitarist taps the soundboard of the guitar while playing the strings simultaneously. According to Niedt's website, "Roger Hudson (a fine guitarist/composer in his own right) in preparing the piece for publication in Fingerstyle Guitar, said to the editor, 'I'd rather have someone hammer nails in my eyes than have to learn to play this arrangement.'"
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This is a piano piece that I wrote and recorded on a Steinway at the University of Georgia. To me, it sounds like wonderful music for a film.
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This is a Spanish piece whose title means "The Hummingbird." You'll see why. I performed it at my 1995 senior recital.
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This is a famous virtuoso classical guitar piece from the 19th century.
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This is an exciting and challenging piece by the 20th century English composer William Walton.
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Alveda King and other women filed this amicus brief in support of a cert. petition that a friend and I filed in a First Amendment case.
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