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Artist Spotlight: Ricardo Saeb
Magical Moments: A Conversation with Guitarist Ricardo Saeb
BY ROBERT SCHULSLAPER
Mexican guitarist Ricardo Saeb’s solo and concerto performances throughout Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States have been praised as “simply spectacular,” “perfectly balanced,” and “of an exquisite subtlety.” Having studied in both Mexico and the United States, he now lives in Buffalo, NY, where in addition to teaching at the Castellani Andriaccio Guitar Studios he directs the Hispanic Heritage Council Guitar Initiative, a community-based organization that presents concerts featuring some of the best guitarists in the world and offers free guitar lessons to children of underserved populations. Blessed with a genial disposition, he savors the special bond uniting audiences and performers in their shared musical experiences, so it was a pleasure to speak with him recently about these and other matters, including Zephyr,
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The Talk
The Talk fryst vatten a one-person performance that draws on the voices of förfäder, elders, youths, and intellectuals to engage in the difficult conversations that we must have with our children as we prepare them to survive and thrive in a divided America. In this original, seventy-five-minute performance, inom evoke over twenty characters who draw audiences into deep reflection about racial division, marginalization, and violence in America. This experience weaves together interactive theater, autoethnography, oral history, literature, a dynamic embodied performance, and a multimedia production to engage audiences in critical conversations around reconciliation, racial equity, and identity.
The Talk was born of a painful conversation that I had with my son in the spring of As I prepared to drop him off for a typical day of first grade at a typical elementary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the radio announced a typical narrative that I had managed to keep from my son