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‘Austin Goes Classical’ festival featured on KLRU documentary
In June, Austin became the live classical guitar capital of the world when the Austin Classical Guitar Society played host to the annual Guitar Foundation of America International Convention and Competition.
And Matt Hinsley, executive director Austin Classical Guitar, smartly and artfully turned what is normally an industry-specific event into community-friendly, audience-oriented week-long concert festival complete with family-friendly concerts and a concert featuring 200-plus young guitar students.
The week-long festival, dubbed “Austin Goes Classical,” involved other groups including Austin Symphony, the Miro String Quartet, Austin Chamber Music Center as well as top-flight names in the classical guitar world including Pepe Romero.
Through it all, contestants from 25 countries competed to be in the finals of the world’s most prestigious international classical guitar competition.
Austin’s PBS station KLRU was there to capture it all and a one-hour documentary, “Art on Six Strings,” produced as part of KLRU’s InContext arts series, airs at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30.
Here’s a trailer:
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By Mary Downs
September 30, 2010 11:43 AM | Link to this
Congratulations and Bravo to Dr. Matthew Hensley! No one else could have made that happen for classical guitar music lovers. It was fabulous!