`EMINENTLY PORTABLE' ACT; GUITARIST BRINGS MUSIC INTO UNLIKELY VENUES.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Classical guitarist Robert Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. played for 300 high school and junior high school students Friday morning and in an Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Bank lobby Friday afternoon. Tonight he will perform at the Palmdale Playhouse. Too many people in late 20th century America, Bluestone explained, believe the only place to have an artistic experience is in a concert hall or a museum. ``This is exactly the kind of thing I like to do. I like to use the arts to build the community. I think in the arts, we have to reintegrate re·in·te·grate tr.v. re·in·te·grat·ed, re·in·te·grat·ing, re·in·te·grates To restore to a condition of integration or unity. re ourselves into the fabric of people's lives,'' said Bluestone. ``I like to go places like banks and schools and pubs and anywhere else. The guitar is eminently portable. All I need is a chair and a footstool. I provide the footstool.'' Bluestone will perform at 8 p.m. today at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens, military and students, and $8 for children age 12 and younger. Bluestone put himself through college playing rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. , but he performs classical music exclusively now. During his 20-year career, he has worked and studied with guitarists such as Michael Lorimer Lor´i`mer n. 1. A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. and Jose Tomas, was a student under Manuel Lopez Ramos at the Instituto del Arte Guitarristico in Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi , and was the first foreign musician on its teaching staff. On the tour that brings him to the Antelope Valley - and also as far as Florida and Alaska - Bluestone will play an eclectic blend of music from the European tradition and more recent works from Latin American. Except for two pieces from Elizabethan England, all the music he will perform today was composed in the 20th century. ``Suite Venezolana'' was written in 1952 by Antonio Lauro Antonio Lauro (born August 3 1917 in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, died April 18 1986 in Caracas) was a Venezuelan guitarist, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the instrument in the 20th century. , while he was jailed as a political prisoner in a Venezuelan prison. John Duarte used English folk music folk music: see folk song. folk music Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition. Knowledge of the history and development of folk music is largely conjectural. for ``English Suite,'' written in the 1960s. The Elizabethan pieces were written by Anthony Holborne, a courtier who died under mysterious circumstances on a spy mission for Queen Elizabeth I. Bluestone tells his audiences stories about the pieces and their composers, ``to give a glimpse into the music.'' ``I see this as a conversation. I don't just get up them, wow 'em with the piece and get out,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Robert Bluestone performs classical guitar music for students. Lee Bergthold/Special to the Daily News |
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