Andrés Segovia The Song of the Guitar Music film, 1976

Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film: The title, Andrés Segovia: The Song of Guitar, comes from a short poem by the Spanish poet, Eugenio d Ors, La Canción de la Guitarra, which Segovia recites in the film. La canción del piano es un discurso la canción del cello es una elegía la canción de la guitarra es una (The song of the piano is a discourse. The song of the cello is an elegy. The song of the guitar is a song). In the first film (Segovia at los Olivos), Segovia talks on camera. In the second, his voice is out of vision, except for a short statement at the beginning and he talks not about his career, but about his youth and about the spirit in which he set out on his remarkable quest a great artist in late maturity remembering the genesis of his extraordinary journey. lt is made as a poetic recollection of the atmosphere rather than the facts of his passionate beginnings nearly 70 years earlier and Andrés Segovia was a poet in almost everything that he did. The idea