UTD Guitar Festival

I recently attended the UTD Guitar Festival and was amazed by the rich music culture that was at my hsnds to take advantage of. I marveled at the ideas of the culture and how this music culture is deeply rooted in music history and the humanities, there is a rich historical, cultursl, philosophical context for all aspects of this culture, The repitiore of the music is a varied set of western classical pieces, african music, music from cuba, indian ragas, there are really no limits for this culture. To my amazment at the William Kanegiser concert, he actually mentioned terms that I knew, and had learned from my understanding music class, he played a traditional african piece on the guitar, but mentioned to the kora, or african type harp-lute, as well as the fundamental aspect of polyrhythm in traditional african music, kanengiser used a common household staple as he called it to change the timbre of the guitar to sound more like the kora, I was amazed!

I also got to attend a concert in which Micheal Craddock played a renaisance-guitar, which is kind of a lute-guitar hybrid. The body of the guitar was close in size to a standard violin, with a neck about 1/4 to 1/2 times longer than a violin neck, Craddock played many rennaisance style pieces from the 16th century.

Kanegiser played this piece at the concert


here is a rennaisance guitar almost exactly to what Craddock was playing at the concert