Classical Guitar Alive!

Series produced by Tony Morris

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Classical Guitar Alive 

Classical Guitar Alive! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is free to all stations. Broadcast each week on 250+ stations. Sound-rich, energetic, positive vibe. A bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers.

Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.

Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally.

Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures.

The program has been acclaimed by both critics and the public alike, and has been applauded by artists as diverse as Yale University professor of music Benjamin Verdery and ex-Led Zeppelin rock guitarist Jimmy Page. Hide full description

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers. Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally. Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures. The program has been acclaimed by both... Show full description


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Caption: Dr. Robert Fine, MD, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Vivaldo, Rodrigo, Arvo Part, Albeniz, and Egberto Gismonti, and a 2020 interview w...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 51
Caption: Artyom Dervoed, Credit: Artyom Dervoed
This edition of Classical Guitar Alive features the world premiere of British composer Stephen Goss’s “Paganini Concerto,” based on Paganini’s Gran...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Pablo Sainz Villegas, Credit: Pablo Sainz Villegas
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Biber, Lara, L'Hoyer, Byron Yasui, and an interview with guitarist-composer/...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Roland Dyens, Credit: Roland Dyens
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features musical revisions: works by one composer than have been changed, adapted, completed, or rev...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Raphael Feuillatre, Credit: Raphael Feuillatre
This edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a 2019 interview with French guitarist Raphael Feuillatre, 1st prize winner of two major internatio...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Caption: Stephen Goss and Xuefei Yang, Credit: Guitare Classique
This edition of Classical Guitar Alive features an interview with British composer Stephen Goss, who discusses his commission to write a concerto f...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Caption: Jason Vieaux, Credit: Grammy Awards
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with guitar competition winners and judges: Denis Azabagic, William Kanengiser, ...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing the lute
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features great music that was created during times of political turmoil from the 16th Century to 20t...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Brasil Guitar Duo, Credit: Dario Acosta
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Haydn, Castlenuovo-Tedesco, Coste, Bolling, Nigel Westlake, and Arturo Carelus, an...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Scott Tennant, Credit: Scott Tennant
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music from, or influenced by, the geographical location that has historically been identifi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Xuefei Yang, Credit: Xuefei Yang
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with Luiz Mantovani of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, and music by Albeniz, Maz...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 50
Caption: Jacqueline Du Pre, Credit: Telegraph UK
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Falla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Baumann, and Heinze, and an interview with composer an...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Berta Rojas, Credit: Berta Rojas
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features interviews with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, French guitarist Judicael Perroy, Scottis...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Amsterdam Guitar Trio, Credit: RCA Records
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music about Winter, and more, including works by Vivaldi, Piazzolla, and the young Polish gu...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: LA Guitar Quartet, Credit: Delos Records
This week’s Classical Guitar Alive! features traditional and new music for Christmas and interviews with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd and American...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Caption: Isaac Bustos, Credit: Isaac Bustos
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Vivaldi, Legnani, American composer Allan Cohen, Agustin Barrios Mangoré, an inter...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Javier Calderon, Credit: Javier Calderon
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a recording by Spanish guitarist Javier Riba (Albeniz) and also music by Hovhaness, Maximo ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 49
Caption: Mark Mancina, Credit: photo by Tony Morris 2016
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Fred Hand, and a 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-winnin...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 42
Caption: Andres Segovia, Credit: Wikipedia
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Granados, Rodrigo, Falla, and archived commentary by the legendary Spanish guitari...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Caption: Victor Villadangos, Credit: Victor Villadangos
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features our second look at music by Argentine composers, with works by Piazzolla, Morel, Blazquez, ...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 47