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December 30, 2009 "Susan MacDonald, Anibal Acosta Interviews"
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This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features interviews recorded in January 2009 with guitarist-composers Susan MacDonald and Anibal Acosta.

Concert guitarist Susan MacDonald discusses how performing for patients at MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center created a new perspective in music making, and marked the beginning of her career as a composer.

Anibal Acosta speaks about his “Serenata for violin and guitar,” which won first prize in the 1987 MTNA Composition Contest.

Program ID# 09-D65-00052
Title: Isaac Bustos Interview/Lezcano Concerto Premieres

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to.."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"
Program Length: 58:57

INTRODUCTION:

Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude
Los Romeros (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Barrios: La Catedral
Susan MacDonald, guitar
Mayfly Records 9502

Carulli: Grand Duo op. 86
Sonja Prunnbauer, guitar
Robert Hill, fortepiano
MDG Scene 603-0616

Interview: Susan MacDonald: "Well, I've been so excited because I always wanted nothing more than to be a concert guitarist... ... opened a well of creativity that I didn't know existed. "

MacDonald: The Question
Susan MacDonald, guitar
Mayfly Records 0608

Kohaut: Concerto in D
Heiki Matlik, guitar
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
ILOPrint Klassika Radio 2008

Interview: Anibal Acosta: "The Serenata for violin and guitar is another interesting piece... ...so that's done quite well."

Acosta: Serenata
Odette Berger, violin
Anibal Acosta, guitar
live recording 1992