Durium Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 Dear Alemaniacs, admirers of the musical heritage of Oscar Aleman. Today, October 14th 2005, twenty five years ago, Oscar Aleman passed away in a hospital in Buenos Aires. He died at the age of 71. He started his career as a little boy singing and dancing in their family band 'The Moreira Sextet" around 1915, learned to play the cavaquinho at the age of twelve, came to Europe twenty years old and became one of the best guitar players from the 1930s. When the second world war started he left Europe and started a new career in Argentina where he became a national star. In the last decade preceding his decease he was honoured by a selected group of admirers who still loved him as a person, for his music and his performance. Now twenty-five years later Oscar hasn't been forgotten. Nearly all his records are reissued on CD and connoisseurs in guitar music praise his music. This summer we talked about his Copenhagen recordings, maybe the best he ever made, and shared the passion for his skill on the guitar and as a person with Svend Asmussen, a colleague from Oscar of the 1930s. We love to share this event with you with a preview of an article, that will be published later in the IAJRC Journal. Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen Thank you: Hans Koert, Joergen Larsen, Theo van de Graaff and Luis Contijoch. El redescubrimiento de Oscar Aleman project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durium Posted October 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 The article "Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen" is now also available in Spanish. Thanks to Luis Contijoch. Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen I send you my warmest congratulations! The article is great. Un gran abrazo, Guillermo Iacona. (Argentina) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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