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A HEART OF TEN STRINGS

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I would have liked
to have done it a different way.

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That's for sure.

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I would have liked to risen up,
to be at your side.

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To help you carry your guitar,

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as so many of your students did.

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But, I was never a student.

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I am a poor man in search of mysteries,

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even when those mysteries don't call me.

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On the one hand...

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FLAUTIST

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Narciso was an extraordinarily
well-trained performer,

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extraordinarily well-informed.

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He was very well-read,

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he was well-researched,

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which was unusual
in the guitar world at the time.

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Even if you want to play like that...

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CONCERT GUITARIST

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...the fluidity
of Narciso’s scales on the guitar,

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the way he played,
the legato he could maintain...

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You couldn't do that,
not even if you wanted to.

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You couldn't achieve it,
not in the same way.

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He had a way of playing,
a way of saying things.

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TEACHER AT MURCIA CONSERVATOIRE
AND CONCERT GUITARIST

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That energetic pulse,
that electrifying vibrato.

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His playing style was unique,
no one else could reproduce that.

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He was exemplary.

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CONCERT PIANIST

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He slowly continued along his path.

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He never stopped.

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He never deviated from what he wanted.

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He knew he wasn’t like the rest.

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COMPOSER

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I believe
he was perfectly aware of that.

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He knew that he wouldn't
be understood by everyone.

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For my father...

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NARCISO'S SON
CONDUCTOR, FLAUTIST AND COMPOSER

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...the music is more important
than the musician.

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What you can offer to the listener,

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that profound message
contained within the musical score,

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is more important
than the capability of the performer.

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From a very young age,

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in my parent's house,

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you could hear the sound
of Narciso's guitar.

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But it's only now,

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that I’ve delved deeper
into his music and his work,

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and investigated his life.

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I have decided
to recover his work and his soul,

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perhaps already long forgotten,

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by those of us who don't deserve
so much love and devotion.

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From here,

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the Monastery of Buenafuente,

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where he spent so much time,

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and where his body now lies,

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I begin my journey

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in search of his soul.

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Narciso was born...

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NARCISO'S SISTER

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...on the 14 November.

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That makes us two years apart.

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Narciso was born here,

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in this house in Marchena,

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in the Lorca countryside, in 1927.

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He was born into a humble,
hardworking family,

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that always supported his dreams.

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As he repeated so many times:

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"I was born in the countryside,

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and the countryside deeply affected me”.

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When he was two years old,

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his musical instrument
was a branch from an olive tree.

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It was a stick about this long.

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He'd play it like this, all day long.

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He made himself a house.

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It was a hut,

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the hut for storing firewood
we had at the house,

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he played his guitar there,
I just played along with him.

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I hid there, with the walking stick.

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I sang songs
and the walking stick was the guitar.

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Until one day,

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one of my older siblings told my father:

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"Narciso is playing
with your walking stick”.

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He said:
"why are you playing with my stick?"

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I said:
"I wasn't, I was playing the guitar".

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My father bought him a guitar at a fair.

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A little guitar with frets and strings
and that you could play.

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-It resembled a guitar.
-It wasn't a toy, it was a real guitar.

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And they say,

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I don’t really remember,
as I was only 3 years old,

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they say that a few days later,

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I could already play
all the popular tunes of the time.

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All my uncles played music.

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One played the bandurria,

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one played the lute,

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one played the guitar,

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one played the pandero.

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Narciso was captivated by that.

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He was amazed by those musicians.

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That was when he was three years old.

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He didn't play with anything,

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apart from his imaginary instruments.

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For me,
the father was fundamental.

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He was the one...

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PRESIDENT OF PROMÚSICA DE MURCIA
AND NEWSPAPER CRITIC

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who discovered
his artistic and creative potential.

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And those journeys
of 7 kilometers one way,

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then 7 kilometers back,

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he was like a kind of silversmith.

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He helped me to play the guitar.

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He took me to Lorca,

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by donkey,
the only method of transport we had.

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In fact, I learnt to read music,

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almost at the same time
as I learnt to read.

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Because I must have only been
around four years old

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when my father
was taking me to Lorca by donkey.

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When he was around six or seven,

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he played a concert
at the Guerra Theatre.

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When he was eight years old,

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the teacher told my father:

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"There's nothing more I can teach him".

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Narciso, by the age of seven,

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had already learned everything

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that the teachers in Lorca
could teach him.

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He stayed there another six years,

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teaching himself
and playing in local concerts.

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Until in 1941,

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after the Civil War,

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the Yepes family
decided to move to Valencia,

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where Narciso finished his education.

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I was 14,

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when we went to Valencia,

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I was 14 and he was 12.

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At 13 years old,

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Narciso enrolled in high school,

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and in the Conservatoire.

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He gave guitar and bandurria lessons
to fund his studies.

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He met musicians and intellectuals
who invited him to their gatherings.

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Individuals such as:
Juan Lamote, Rafael Balaguer,

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Joaquin García de la Rosa,
Manuel Palao and Vicente Asencio.

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His greatest teacher was,
without doubt, Vicente Asencio.

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By 15, he had mastered
all the techniques known at that time.

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When he was 17,

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he gave his first guitar concert
in Valencia,

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at the Serrano Theatre.

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Vicente Asencio really was

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the key figure in my education.

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I'm talking about the period

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between the ages of 13 and 17.

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Or even 18.

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Vicente was not a guitarist.

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Vicente was a great musician,

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he played the piano,
the violin, the flute.

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In the beginning, he hated the guitar.

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I'd go home and think:

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"Why can't a guitarist play scales
as quickly as a pianist?"

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I've got fingers and he's got fingers,
I don't see why not.

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So, I practised
using more than two fingers.

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The books say to use two,

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but I thought why not use more?

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I've got more fingers.

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He spent all night,

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I was there,

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doing this on the guitar string
with his little finger.

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He went to tell them
that he wanted to play on the radio.

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"I want to play on the radio".

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"But what will you play?"

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He was a kid.

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"The guitar. I play the guitar."

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"You can play the guitar?"

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"Yes, I can."

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They offered him a concert.

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So, we had to find him a suit.

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They said he had to look good,

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which meant he had to wear a suit.

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We said:
"Don't worry, we'll find him a suit."

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At Malvarrosa in Valencia,

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at the Malvarrosa beach,

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there was a centre for disabled people,

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and some of the residents
played instruments.

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Some played the guitar,

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they played what they could.

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And he put together...

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a wonderful ensemble.

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They were all lying down,

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because most of them couldn't walk.

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He did it for free.

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All his love,

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and all his compassion,

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would appear in those places

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full of pain and loneliness,

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to fill the empty spaces

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of those lost deprived souls.

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I BELIEVE THAT YOU
WILL BRING ME MUCH JOY WITH THIS PIECE

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He met Ataulfo Argenta in Lorca,

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Argenta's sister was married
to someone in Lorca.

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That's where they became friends.

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Apparently, Narciso played him something

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and Ataul was enthralled.

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That's when he made the move

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from Lorca to Madrid,

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and played the Concierto de Aranjuez
and all that followed.

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I went to Rodrigo's house,

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that was in 1947,

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I was not yet 20 years old.

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I asked if he wanted
to hear me play the guitar.

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Not for the Concierto de Aranjuez,
just to hear me play.

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He said yes.

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So, I went and I played,
and he said nothing.

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He never asked me if I wanted to play
the Concierto de Aranjuez.

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He simply stood up,
went over to his bookcase,

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he pulled out a score and said:
"Is this the Concierto de Aranjuez?"

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I looked at it and said it was.

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Then he said: "take it and study it",

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because I would love
to hear you play it one day.

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The Concierto de Aranjuez

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took Narciso Yepes around the world.

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But, Narciso Yepes took
the Concierto de Aranjuez to the world.

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Perhaps neither one

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would have been what they were,

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if they had not met,

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in life and in the history of music.

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He emerged as the greatest performer

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of the Concierto de Aranjuez.

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The Concierto de Aranjuez
is extremely difficult,

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it was beyond the technical capabilities

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of the other guitarists of the time,

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and by a long way.

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There was also the additional problem

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that it's a concerto,

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played with an orchestra.

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Even though it is fantastically written,

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the guitarist has to ensure
that the guitar can be heard

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over the sound of the orchestra.

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Therefore, there were
many great guitarists at the time

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who didn't want
to attempt the Concierto de Aranjuez

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because they knew
they wouldn't be heard all the time.

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He added many,
even hundreds, of flourishes

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that didn't exactly match
what was written on the score.

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However, it was not
that he wasn't faithful to the music,

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on the contrary, it was...

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it was a way of getting even closer

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to what Joaquín Rodrigo
had in his mind.

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I started working on it,

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then I returned to Lorca,
during the summer of 1947,

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when I returned in October,

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Rodrigo and Ataulfo Argenta
listened to me play it,

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the Concierto de Aranjuez,

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Ataulfo immediately arranged
for me to perform it

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on the 17 December
at the Teatro Español.

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I performed, and it was...

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It was very well received
by the audience,

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that was my debut in Madrid.

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MUSIC IS PART OF LIFE
AND LIFE IS MOVEMENT

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Narciso moved to Paris,

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which, at the time, was the home
of art, music and intellectuals.

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It was 1951,

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he was 24 years old.

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He stayed there for three years .

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He received music lessons
from George Enescu and Walter Gieseking.

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But, without doubt,

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his most important teacher
was Nadia Boulanger.

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It was in that city
where he composed the music

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for the film Forbidden Games
by René Clément.

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René Clément was at my concert
at the Salle de Gaveau,

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when the recital was over,
she came to see me and said:

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"I've just finished a film
called Jeux Interdits ,

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Forbidden Games,

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and I've decided
that you have to do the music for it".

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I could have jumped up and down in joy,

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and said: "very well, I'll do it!",

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Instead, I said yes,
but I need to see the film first.

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He agreed.

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I said I'd write the music,
but with various conditions.

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He was a bit surprised by this young kid

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who was giving him conditions.

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I said: "Yes, I will decide

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when the music should start,

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and every time
that the music should stop.

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That'll be my decision."

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What did you find here, Narciso?

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What brought you
to this bridge over the Seine?

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What dark solitude invaded you in Paris?

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Between the many silences

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hidden in it's streets made of stone.

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Source of mysteries and doubts.

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What flame did your fire need?

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What immortal light
led you to discover that voice?

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To calm your restless soul,

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in this place of prayer and peace,

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without distinguishing creed,

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you converted yourself, here,

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into an instrument of light and music

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that'll make the souls
of countless people tremble.

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I DIDN'T INVENT ANYTHING

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The only thing I did
was bring to the guitar

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a series of ideas
that I'd had in mind for a long time,

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that I wanted to develop
on that instrument.

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I'm sure that the guitar
told Narciso all these things,

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and more.

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If not, why did he invent
the ten string guitar?

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Because, something happened,

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and he needed more.

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I needed...

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more strings that give resonance,

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as we've discussed many times before,

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I needed resonance
on each of the 12 notes of the scale.

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You can't say...

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LUTHIER

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...that he didn't design the guitar,

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because he created something new

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with that guitar,

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including a whole new repertoire.

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Yepes was an innovator in that sense.

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It resulted in many composers

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who would never
have composed for the guitar,

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composed for the guitar,

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thanks to him and his guitar.

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That fact that...

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A six-string guitar

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is very complicated,

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in every aspect.

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Narciso also had...

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a faith and a strong interest
in early music.

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He studied renaissance music in depth.

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He recorded Bach's suites
not only on the ten-stringed guitar,

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but he also recorded
a version on the lute.

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He found himself faced with the problem

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of not having enough strings.

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The lute had
much more powerful bass notes.

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The notes were lower
and much more powerful.

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So, guitarists
had to transpose the music.

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Narciso had the idea

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of creating a guitar
with a range of notes

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that would allow him,
without changing a note,

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to play music written for the lute.

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Yepes's guitar was not easy to play.

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Because...

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PERFORMER, COMPOSER, MUSICOLOGIST

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...it was a guitar,
but also a different instrument.

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The right hand was very different.

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You'd have to work on the left hand too,

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particularly on the bass notes,

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because they were difficult to reach.

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It's an incredibly difficult instrument,

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even with six strings.

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I don't know how much harder it is
with four extra strings,

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I've never tried to play one.

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The main issue I see,

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is how to mute the resonance
when it's not required.

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Certain notes could interfere
with the resonance,

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because they're not part of the harmony.

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The ten-string guitar was an era.

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And, of course...

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GUITAR MAKER AND FRIEND

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that era was built around Yepes,

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and all that surrounded him
in his personal and professional life.

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The critics...

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reacted very positively.

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Guitarists say
that it is too complicated,

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that it isn't necessary
to put ten strings on a guitar.

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Perhaps there will be a re-emergence

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of the ten-string guitar,

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it could come back with a boom.

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But, I don't think
it was about the ten-string guitar,

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it was about the music.

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Through that guitar,

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Narciso Yepes found a way
to express himself and to make music.

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The ten-string guitar
is no longer mentioned,

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because most people
who talked about the ten-string guitar,

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talked about it
without even seeing it or hearing it.

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Narciso's contribution with his guitar,

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he focused a lot
on the ten-string guitar,

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but I don't think that was fundamental,

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although it was necessary
for him to develop his art.

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The fundamental thing

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was his different approach
to the guitar.

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He didn't want
to adapt the music to the guitar,

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but to adapt the guitar to the music.

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I don't think we should remember

00:22:16.760 --> 00:22:19.080
Narciso Yepes for the ten-string guitar.

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Of course, it was a great contribution,

00:22:21.760 --> 00:22:23.680
but it was not the only one.

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If we limit ourselves to thinking

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that Yepes was only
about the ten-string guitar,

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we would be impoverishing
his contribution to music.

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I think that for Narciso

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that fact that he is only remembered
for the ten-string guitar is unfair.

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He played that guitar,

00:22:44.040 --> 00:22:47.600
but Narciso is a lot more
than just the ten-string guitar.

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In my opinion.

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Like what?

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Well, the concept of polyphony.

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The polyphony of Narciso's vision
and of his technical style,

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that was not done by anyone else.

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Whether on a ten-string,
a six-string, or a ukulele.

00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:19.440
Our life...

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NARCISO'S WIFE
SORBONNE CLASSICS GRADUATE

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...was like that too.

00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.840
In our family life,

00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.480
our goal was never
to have lots of possessions,

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to have lots of money, to have...

00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:35.600
I don't even think Narciso

00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:37.720
was interested by the fame.

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He was very humble and modest.

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What interested him

00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:46.920
was introducing people to music
in the way he saw it,

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doing good,

00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:53.440
and sharing the music

00:23:53.520 --> 00:23:55.760
that was so sacred to him.

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How he saw music, how he played it.

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We spent about...

00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.080
I don't know...

00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:07.840
more than three quarters
of our lives apart.

00:24:08.360 --> 00:24:09.400
He was travelling,

00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:12.320
and staying in touch was...

00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:14.440
difficult.

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I don't remember
having a father at home.

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I mean, a father who played tennis
or took you to the beach.

00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:23.360
When my father was at home,

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:25.680
he spent all his time studying.

00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.120
He spent many hours of his day
in his studio.

00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:33.040
When Narciso returned home,

00:24:33.760 --> 00:24:36.080
I believe his presence was...

00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:40.120
very intense and authentic.

00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:41.960
He tried to...

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I don't know if it was compensating,

00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:49.360
but he tried to spend quality time
in the house with the children.

00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:50.560
I remember...

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NARCISO'S DAUGHTER
DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER

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...we were always singing,

00:24:55.080 --> 00:24:58.360
we played musical games with my father
when we were young,

00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:01.080
walking to different rhythms,
things like that.

00:25:01.560 --> 00:25:04.280
I don't remember exactly,

00:25:04.360 --> 00:25:08.320
but I think I could read music
before I could read the alphabet.

00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.640
Then we sang, we sang Christmas carols,

00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.360
and from a young age
we were playing the piano and the flute.

00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:19.640
We always played music and sang at home,
that's what I remember.

00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:22.920
In his free time,
he'd play chess with us.

00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.680
Which was a wonderful thing,

00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:27.680
I liked it a lot.

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I think of him
every time I play chess with my children

00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:54.520
One of the best experiences of my life
was with my father and Ignacio.

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Being on stage with them,

00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:58.920
was an absolute luxury.

00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.880
The fluidity of our communication,

00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.160
and the art we created together
was wonderful.

00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:07.320
I'll remember that forever.

00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:09.000
When he was well-known,

00:26:09.320 --> 00:26:10.960
Narciso was very welcoming,

00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:13.320
and...

00:26:14.520 --> 00:26:17.600
a problem we had in the family

00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.920
was that he always had guests around.

00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.920
So, when we'd been waiting,

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.200
marking the days off the calendar
until he came home,

00:26:27.560 --> 00:26:30.800
We were so happy,
especially over the holidays,

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.840
to have him at home
and to have the family together.

00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:37.360
He'd introduce us to people,

00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.440
or he'd invited them to our house,

00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:44.120
or they'd even just turn up
to visit us.

00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:45.840
But, I had a father

00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:48.600
that introduced me to an exciting world,

00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:50.800
that I am now part of.

00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:53.040
I think that we were a family,

00:26:53.120 --> 00:26:55.040
at least, this is how I feel,

00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:58.240
we were a family
that loved each other a lot.

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EACH DAY I HOLD IN MY HANDS

00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:02.840
AN INSTRUMENT
CAPABLE OF CONTINUOUS CHANGE

00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:05.040
THE GUITAR IS NOT FINITE
NOR FINISHED

00:27:05.120 --> 00:27:06.520
BECAUSE NEITHER AM I

00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:13.240
Yepes contributed greatly to music,

00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:15.120
and I don't think it's possible

00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:18.080
to understand the history
of Spanish music

00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:20.640
and it's performance,
without his presence.

00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.200
In other words, he was constantly...

00:27:24.560 --> 00:27:26.320
raising the bar for the guitar

00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.080
to a level of performance

00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.520
that radically changed

00:27:31.600 --> 00:27:35.240
the way in which we listen to
and appreciate the instrument.

00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:42.880
What he achieved was

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:46.880
elevate the guitar world
in the hierarchy of music

00:27:47.320 --> 00:27:50.400
The guitar had a very endearing

00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:53.280
and charming history,

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:59.040
particularly during
the 18th and 19th centuries.

00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.320
But it was a small history,

00:28:03.560 --> 00:28:05.760
it was domestic,

00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:09.680
it was a history of small cenacles.

00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:12.840
That was fine,
but I think that Narciso...

00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:16.200
From a young age,

00:28:16.280 --> 00:28:19.040
Narciso found that history
to be insufficient.

00:28:19.520 --> 00:28:21.520
He thought that the guitar

00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:23.640
should be on the same level

00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:27.880
as the musical instruments
of the first hierarchy,

00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:31.360
such as the piano,
the violin, the cello.

00:28:37.760 --> 00:28:38.800
What he did

00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:42.760
was to show us
that it's possible to make music

00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:46.000
on a guitar,
but not in the guitar's style.

00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:49.720
Music in another voice,
with another spirit,

00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:53.880
a more abstract, contemporary music
played on the guitar.

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:56.520
That was fundamental.

00:28:56.600 --> 00:28:59.120
He did things technically
that nobody did.

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:02.800
He was responsible
for the advancement...

00:29:03.800 --> 00:29:06.160
in the wealth of the guitar.

00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:09.800
Instead of sticking to
what was popular and idiomatic,

00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.440
he did something
more abstract and universal.

00:29:12.800 --> 00:29:17.600
He appealed to
the leading composers of the time,

00:29:18.280 --> 00:29:20.520
he asked them
to compose for the guitar.

00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:22.760
It was a crusade

00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:24.920
that was started by Andrés Segovia

00:29:25.360 --> 00:29:27.000
in the early 20th century,

00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:31.520
with an aesthetic more closely linked
to the world of otonality.

00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.720
Narciso Yepes took it a step further,

00:29:35.080 --> 00:29:36.680
he asked the best composers,

00:29:36.760 --> 00:29:38.080
in the 50s and the 60s,

00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.840
when all of the leading
composers were emerging.

00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.520
It's two things,
it's not just virtuosity...

00:29:43.600 --> 00:29:46.760
NARCISO'S STUDENT
HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC PROFESSOR

00:29:46.840 --> 00:29:49.640
...yes, that ensures
that everything is perfect.

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:52.960
The technique of using the whole hand

00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:55.480
reproduced the music perfectly.

00:29:56.280 --> 00:29:58.880
But, in addition, internally

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.800
there is a profound weight

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.320
placed upon the person who managed...

00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.800
to make the instrument sound...

00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:13.160
like it never had before.

00:30:26.080 --> 00:30:29.920
I HAD A HUMBLE UPBRINGING
AND I BELIEVE I'M HUMBLE IN SPIRIT

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:31.920
I DON'T WISH TO CHANGE THAT

00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:33.080
Narciso...

00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:36.440
was born good.

00:30:36.520 --> 00:30:40.920
He was a profoundly
good and generous person.

00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:43.720
He was like that with everything.

00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:46.080
In his profession,

00:30:46.320 --> 00:30:49.400
with all of his musician colleagues,

00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:53.160
with every single person that he met.

00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:54.520
I don't believe

00:30:55.040 --> 00:30:58.960
that Narciso had any enemies.

00:30:59.360 --> 00:31:03.600
If anyone was jealous of him,
or had a quarrel with him

00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:05.200
it wasn't because of him,

00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:07.400
because Narciso was genuinely

00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:09.920
open and tolerant,

00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:13.720
he knew how to listen to people.

00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.120
Narciso was a very good friend
to his friends.

00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:20.240
I was struck by his humanism.

00:31:23.080 --> 00:31:25.560
I believe he was a profoundly good man.

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:29.920
But, he was not a good person

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.920
because of what he thought
or for what he wanted to be,

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.560
but because of the world
that he would have liked,

00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:40.280
which doesn't exist.

00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:44.640
The integrity
that you could sense in Narciso.

00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.680
He was completely unwavering

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:50.920
about his religious convictions,

00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:55.400
his musical convictions
and his convictions about the guitar.

00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.680
Something very touching for me,

00:31:57.760 --> 00:32:00.000
was when I started playing concerts,

00:32:00.080 --> 00:32:02.840
I started when I was very young,

00:32:03.560 --> 00:32:05.560
when I was still an adolescent,

00:32:05.800 --> 00:32:09.160
he gifted me a tailcoat
which was too small for him.

00:32:09.560 --> 00:32:13.720
It was a very kind of him,
it was a lovely present,

00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:17.080
but it turned into a huge weight for me,

00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.880
because every time I went on stage
wearing Narciso Yepes's suit,

00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.240
I became so horribly anxious

00:32:24.320 --> 00:32:27.520
that I would not be good enough
for that suit.

00:32:27.760 --> 00:32:28.760
He told jokes...

00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:30.560
ODÓN ALONSO'S WIDOW

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.080
that were funnier than anyone else's.

00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:35.560
When a concert had finished,

00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:39.480
and the organisers
invited us out for a meal,

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.800
we'd ask Narciso to tell us jokes.

00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.360
When he told you a joke,
you'd feel sick from laughing,

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:48.760
because he told them very seriously.

00:32:50.320 --> 00:32:54.040
We're going to play in Soria
on the condition

00:32:54.320 --> 00:32:56.800
that I conduct and you play.

00:32:57.080 --> 00:33:01.200
Odón said:
"but I'm not up to playing the piano",

00:33:01.280 --> 00:33:04.160
and Narciso said:
"well, play what you want,

00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:05.600
I'll accompany you".

00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:07.960
To everyone's amazement,

00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:12.800
Narciso went up to the podium,
and Odón sat at the piano.

00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:16.880
And, effectively,
during the second half,

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.000
Odón played the Haydn concerto,

00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:21.880
and Narciso conducted.

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.920
They had a wonderful time.

00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:27.040
They had a lot of fun.

00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.760
They said it was because
they were so positive.

00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:32.280
They were both so positive.

00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:36.680
Many things could have been different,

00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.760
but they were happy and positive,

00:33:39.840 --> 00:33:42.280
they said:
"What a good time we've had!"

00:33:42.360 --> 00:33:45.600
I remember that Narciso said:

00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.680
"What's more,
it was such an experience for me

00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:50.800
to lift up my arms,

00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.960
and see that I had hanging here

00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:56.080
every musician in the orchestra".

00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:18.320
The concert finished,

00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.400
I was a little careless,

00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:25.320
and I left the lights on.

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:29.000
The next time I tried to turn them on,
they didn't work.

00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.680
I've always wished that I had a selfie

00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:37.680
so that we could have had a record

00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:42.000
of Narciso Yepes
pushing my Seat 850,

00:34:42.080 --> 00:34:46.400
with his guitar on one side,
and a hand on the door.

00:34:46.640 --> 00:34:49.400
That gives you an idea
of his humanity.

00:34:51.720 --> 00:34:55.400
Even though you flew so high
with your guitar companion,

00:34:55.680 --> 00:34:57.800
you reached so many new heights,

00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:02.080
and entered the palaces
of the most powerful men,

00:35:02.560 --> 00:35:04.560
your soul never changed.

00:35:05.040 --> 00:35:06.600
You still saw the world

00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:08.920
with the same softness and gentleness,

00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.240
with a wide smile,
and continuous devotion.

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.960
Your powerful hands
made of musical fingers,

00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:20.080
still shook friendly hands
with warm tenderness.

00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:24.640
You shared the joy in your heart
with the whole world equally,

00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:27.560
with your unique and eternal family,

00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.160
your friends who you loved so dearly,

00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:33.120
and your Mediterranean land

00:35:33.200 --> 00:35:35.600
of dry, bitter earth, and the sweet sea,

00:35:36.240 --> 00:35:37.560
that you never forgot,

00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:39.680
and that you could always feel.

00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:45.920
He came to Murcia almost every year
to play a concert.

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:50.440
They say you can't belong to a land,
but Narciso Yepes did.

00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:54.360
He was incredibly admired
and well-loved figure in Murcia.

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:56.440
He played a concert in 1950

00:35:56.520 --> 00:36:00.280
a few months
before we went to Paris with Argenta.

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:02.880
I think he came to play
with the symphony orchestra

00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.360
to gear himself up, for experience,

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.880
which is very important,

00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:10.200
but to make the leap
from Lorca to Paris,

00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:12.640
as alongside Ataúlfo Argenta,

00:36:12.720 --> 00:36:15.120
he had to take his precautions,

00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.840
and it was during that Murcia concert
when he took those precautions.

00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.480
Yepes never stopped coming to Lorca,

00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:24.040
to the Teatro Guerra,

00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:27.600
with the National Orchestra,
the Reina Sofia Orchestra,

00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:29.000
with the Trio Yepes,

00:36:29.160 --> 00:36:31.040
and always completely selflessly.

00:36:31.120 --> 00:36:32.200
Of course...

00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:35.520
DOCTOR AND PRESIDENT
OF THE NARCISO YEPES CULTURAL CIRCLE

00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:40.480
...Yepes's concerts
were always full to the rafters.

00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:42.200
It's the only time...

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:43.800
MUSICIAN

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.720
...that the Concierto de Aranjuez
has been played

00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.240
with Narciso Yepes as the soloist,

00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:54.000
and a band
playing the part of the orchestra.

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:55.480
They had to research...

00:36:55.560 --> 00:36:58.040
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCTOR
AND MUSIC RESEARCHER

00:36:58.120 --> 00:37:01.480
...because the sound of a band
is different to an orchestra.

00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:03.840
They had to balance

00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:06.800
the natural sound of the guitar

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:10.560
with the band's percussion
and wind instruments.

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.080
So, they invented a small amplifier

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.680
especially for this concert.

00:37:17.240 --> 00:37:19.000
The result was magnificent.

00:37:19.080 --> 00:37:21.120
It was a great luxury

00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:24.560
to be able to visit the
musician in his own home.

00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:28.000
I remember hearing him
playing the guitar.

00:37:28.680 --> 00:37:29.960
SCULPTOR

00:37:30.080 --> 00:37:31.840
He was strumming the strings,

00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.080
so I could see how he held his hands,

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:36.920
how he sat,

00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:39.200
how he held the guitar.

00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.600
The guitar in the sculpture
is a perfect copy...

00:37:43.560 --> 00:37:45.680
of Narciso's guitar.

00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.200
I took an outline
so I could make a full-scale replica.

00:37:50.120 --> 00:37:52.320
Then using photographs,

00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:55.040
old photographs,
from when he was younger,

00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:56.960
I put together a mental collage.

00:37:57.040 --> 00:37:59.000
He's not only given enthusiasm,

00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:01.400
he's given enthusiasm, hard work,

00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:03.640
and an extraordinary artistic streak.

00:38:03.720 --> 00:38:06.560
Art has no boundaries.

00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:11.240
It has no boundaries
when you put your heart into it.

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:19.800
I'm muting that,

00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:21.360
and now with ten strings.

00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:35.160
There's a difference.

00:38:35.560 --> 00:38:37.160
The most important thing

00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:40.480
is to uncover the student's personality,

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:42.280
so they can develop it.

00:38:42.600 --> 00:38:46.040
The student shouldn't play like me,
but like themselves.

00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:48.880
He was a great teacher.

00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:51.680
That's one of my
most important memories of him.

00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.480
Well, one of my most
important memories of him

00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:56.160
is how he taught fairly.

00:38:56.640 --> 00:39:00.000
For example,
when we practised the piano as children,

00:39:00.240 --> 00:39:02.120
he'd sit at our side and ask:

00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:05.040
"Ana, can I watch you practise?",

00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:06.720
and I'd say he could.

00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.280
Then I'd start practising,

00:39:08.520 --> 00:39:12.920
and he'd say: "Do you know what?
Repeating these parts is unnecessary.

00:39:13.240 --> 00:39:14.640
What you need to do

00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:17.000
is work on the difficult sections.

00:39:17.080 --> 00:39:19.160
For example, this difficult part,

00:39:19.240 --> 00:39:22.440
pick out the bit just before
and the bit just after,

00:39:22.720 --> 00:39:24.480
and just repeat that,

00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.760
because you have to play it perfectly
the first time

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.880
when you play in a concert,
not the third time".

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:33.840
I think what he contributed to the world

00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:36.480
was how to study,

00:39:37.600 --> 00:39:40.000
and how to...

00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:45.480
how to work with the disciples
through a lesson or a piece of work,

00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.320
what path we should follow
to be ourselves.

00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:52.800
That's it, take this finger off,

00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.280
try to ensure
that the note doesn't sound.

00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:56.880
-OK.
-It can be heard.

00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:58.680
Play something so piano,

00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.320
start the concert incredibly piano,

00:40:01.640 --> 00:40:03.560
pianissimo,

00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:06.240
they have to listen hard to hear you,

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.000
from that moment on,

00:40:09.080 --> 00:40:13.320
their ears have worked so hard,

00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:15.840
that anything that is played after that,

00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:17.680
will seem normal and loud.

00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.920
That way, the only problem
is the start of the concert.

00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.640
That's a scale

00:40:25.080 --> 00:40:27.520
played very strongly,
but what you want is

00:40:27.720 --> 00:40:30.560
a scale played more piano,
more fluidly.

00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:36.280
The guitarist is like this.

00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.840
It was a good class,
extraordinary, intense.

00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:57.800
We were there four hours.

00:40:58.320 --> 00:40:59.960
We had to work on...

00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:02.840
NARCISO'S STUDENT
TEACHER LORCA CONSERVATOIRE

00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.520
...all the material I had.

00:41:04.600 --> 00:41:08.040
He taught me techniques
that I didn't know before.

00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:10.480
Scales using three right hand fingers.

00:41:11.080 --> 00:41:12.120
As well as...

00:41:13.240 --> 00:41:15.080
chromatic and diatonic scales,

00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:18.520
ascending and descending
using the hammer on technique,

00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:20.040
which was incredible.

00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:33.240
I think the classes
were the most important thing.

00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:35.880
It's the first contact

00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.200
with someone
who doesn't talk as a teacher,

00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:40.840
but as a maestro.

00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.720
Someone who doesn't position your hand,

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:44.960
sometimes, he would,

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:49.360
but he'd do it in a very special way.

00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:53.880
What he did was transmit

00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:56.560
much more essential things.

00:41:57.240 --> 00:42:00.560
He'd talk about other things,

00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.000
that world on the inside,

00:42:03.680 --> 00:42:06.000
the problems of that interior world,

00:42:06.600 --> 00:42:10.160
and that the sound exists first in here.

00:42:11.080 --> 00:42:13.960
and that you have to look for it,
and desire it.

00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:40.840
He always said

00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:43.960
that he was happiest
the moment he started a concert,

00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:48.360
because he was able to communicate
with those people.

00:42:48.600 --> 00:42:50.560
He was an extremely warm person.

00:42:50.640 --> 00:42:53.560
My father and the audience were one.

00:42:53.640 --> 00:42:55.320
When he was on stage,

00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:58.920
he wanted to communicate
with everyone in front of him,

00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.920
not with the crowd,
but with each individual.

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:03.720
And that's what he did.

00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:05.880
He moved the audience, every time.

00:43:06.200 --> 00:43:09.680
I met many people
who weren't from the world of music,

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:13.240
who said they were deeply affected
by my father's concerts,

00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.880
and how he communicated his emotions.

00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:17.760
It was the same for my father,

00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:19.600
he always said that...

00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:22.320
How can I say that?

00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:24.320
It was his fuel.

00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:26.240
There was an electricity

00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:28.320
between him and the audience.

00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:32.440
Not just in Europe,
but in America and Asia too.

00:43:32.640 --> 00:43:34.880
In Japan, they were delirious.

00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.800
He had to play five or six encores,

00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.480
he couldn't leave the stage.

00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:43.080
He always ended up playing
Forbidden Games ,

00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:45.600
saying in Japanese
that it was the last one.

00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.360
Narciso was ill for many years.

00:44:01.560 --> 00:44:03.320
It was almost nine years,

00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:05.960
from the moment
he started to feel ill.

00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:09.320
We all think...

00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:13.720
that it was the death
of our youngest son,

00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:15.480
Juan de la Cruz,

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.160
was what triggered his illness,

00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:25.000
and caused a fundamental change
in our family life,

00:44:25.080 --> 00:44:26.760
for all of us.

00:44:27.120 --> 00:44:27.960
His illness...

00:44:28.040 --> 00:44:29.720
BUENAFUERTE MONASTERY PRIEST

00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.920
...was caused by the death of his child.

00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:48.560
I believe...

00:44:50.240 --> 00:44:52.360
he was with him throughout his life.

00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:54.760
In his thoughts,

00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:57.840
and in his actions too.

00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:03.200
One day, he told me
that he talked to his son.

00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:06.360
I could understand that.

00:45:06.720 --> 00:45:09.240
I understood
that he talked with his son,

00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:12.080
because perhaps
I would have done the same thing.

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:14.440
When he found out

00:45:14.720 --> 00:45:16.920
that his illness was terminal,

00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:19.440
he fought,

00:45:19.520 --> 00:45:22.920
the whole family fought together.

00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:26.720
We fought with faith and with hope.

00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:28.840
Narciso was admirable.

00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:32.280
His bravery was admirable.

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:34.440
He was admirable when he was ill.

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:38.000
He was an admirable father and husband.

00:45:38.600 --> 00:45:42.000
They were very difficult and hard years.

00:45:42.600 --> 00:45:45.520
But, at the same time, those years...

00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:49.040
were incredibly profound and marvelous.

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.280
There is something that...

00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.320
I wanted to highlight.

00:45:54.720 --> 00:45:56.720
In the final years of his life,

00:45:57.040 --> 00:46:01.480
he was playing very few concerts,

00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:04.080
but he found the strength and courage

00:46:04.560 --> 00:46:08.400
to make the concerts he played amazing.

00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:27.480
They were so intense and beautiful,

00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.520
so absolutely special.

00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:34.920
He knew he had...

00:46:36.080 --> 00:46:37.400
a mission.

00:46:37.520 --> 00:46:41.200
His mission was to play music,

00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.280
to put love in his music,

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:47.400
and to make people happy
when they heard the concert.

00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:49.200
He was happy,

00:46:49.560 --> 00:46:51.800
and he communicated that happiness

00:46:52.040 --> 00:46:54.840
through a very high standard of music.

00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:56.400
When he was ill,

00:46:57.600 --> 00:47:01.800
he came here to play
the Friends of Buenafuente concert

00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:04.280
with his guitar and with his pain.

00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:13.880
He could continue playing concerts,

00:47:14.120 --> 00:47:17.080
and he made an effort to carry on.

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.040
It was a great help for him,

00:47:19.200 --> 00:47:21.640
to continue playing was a gift for him.

00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:25.200
Because the most important thing to him
was his music.

00:47:25.680 --> 00:47:27.960
FOR ME, MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSE

00:47:28.040 --> 00:47:31.000
THAT ALLOWS ME TO UNDERSTAND WHO I AM

00:47:31.080 --> 00:47:32.800
AND WHAT MY MISSION IS

00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:35.800
Narciso Yepes was a master performer

00:47:36.120 --> 00:47:38.440
because he was able
to listen to himself.

00:47:38.520 --> 00:47:41.720
Because when you listen,
you can work out...

00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:47.280
What are the range
of options available to me?

00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.200
What do I need to look for?

00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:51.720
What do I need to improve

00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:54.360
to make my music the best it can be?

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:05.400
A technical problem should never...

00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.560
ruin a performance.

00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:12.160
It can ruin a performance,

00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:17.240
it can hinder or interfere
with the listeners experience.

00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.280
And, when the guitar
is not able to offer that,

00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:23.200
it has to be resolved.

00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:27.360
That's why he carried out
extensive research on the instrument.

00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:29.440
Research on ancient music,

00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:31.840
the contribution of contemporary music,

00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:33.920
continuous research.

00:48:34.040 --> 00:48:36.120
When he had a 14 course lute built,

00:48:36.240 --> 00:48:39.240
he made it identical
to Johann Sebastian Bach's lute,

00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:41.960
so he could record Bach's suites
on the lute.

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.240
He's left a legacy.

00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:57.760
Only time will tell

00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:00.400
how long it will last.

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.920
But it's a legacy...

00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.120
Many guitar vocations,

00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:11.160
and many vocational guitarists,

00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.520
hope to see themselves

00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:19.200
reflected or depicted by

00:49:20.040 --> 00:49:22.160
Narciso's guitar.

00:49:22.680 --> 00:49:25.880
Any guitarist with an open mind,

00:49:26.520 --> 00:49:29.320
of course, some don't have an open mind,

00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.520
those who go to the schools

00:49:32.600 --> 00:49:35.400
that make out
that anything new is bad,

00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:39.520
but any open minded guitarist will see

00:49:39.600 --> 00:49:41.800
all the things my father contributed.

00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.440
Then, there is another legacy

00:49:52.520 --> 00:49:55.160
which is physical, you can touch it.

00:49:55.240 --> 00:49:57.440
Not like music, which you can't touch.

00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:00.800
His musical scores are a legacy.

00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:03.200
All of his books and scores,

00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:05.440
all the material he used in his work.

00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.760
And that...

00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.640
It should be available
for future generations.

00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:14.560
I am convinced
that any musician in the world

00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.360
should be able
to see his musical archives,

00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:19.840
and enjoy them as much as I have.

00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:20.920
In that archive...

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GUITARIST

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...there are printed works
that he scanned.

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It's a treasure chest

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that has not yet been explored.

00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:34.880
His musical archive
is a thing of beauty.

00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:38.120
His calligraphy of the music

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is extraordinary.

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You could take his handwritten scores

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copy them and publish them
directly alongside the scanned scores.

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That applies to all
of his handwritten scores,

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he wrote clearly, in large letters,

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because he didn't see very well.

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There are many pieces that he revised,

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or he transcribed old pieces,

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or he transcribed for the guitar
from other instruments.

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You could study for years
in his library.

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But, the problem is
we can't use it in it's current state.

00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:13.960
We need to create a catalogue.

00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.120
Ignacio started it,
but it's a full time job

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that will take years.

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We've been surpassed
by everything he's left us.

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This musical archive should be available
to the scientific community,

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to the musical community,

00:51:31.080 --> 00:51:34.320
and to the musical panorama
in the whole world.

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I think Narciso lived...

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with his illness in his own way,

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and he died in his own way.

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With serenity,

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with love,

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and with strong faith.

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That's all I can say.

00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:57.400
My father lives on in me,

00:51:57.520 --> 00:52:00.160
he's part of me,

00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.400
in things related to art, of course,

00:52:03.640 --> 00:52:05.040
dance and music,

00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.440
it's not that I think of him,
it's like he's inside me.

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There are often times
when I want to ask him something,

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and I ask him and he answers me.

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It's not that I'm talking to him,
but I hear him inside me.

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For those who never knew him,

00:52:23.040 --> 00:52:24.360
I feel sorry for them.

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And those that knew him,
but didn't take away

00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.760
everything that he offered them,

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I feel twice as sorry.

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Because he made a great difference
to my life.

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He'll be missed.

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He'll be missed.

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Because talking with him...

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was...

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you had the sensation that

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he believed in what you said,

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and he said what he believed.

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He instructed his family

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that if he died,

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Buenafuente should be his place of rest.

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I brought his ashes from Murcia to here.

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I travelled in my car

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in an intimate dialogue,

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with the ashes of Narciso Yepes.

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"THE SPIRIT"

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He was an member of
the Real Academia de Bellas Artes,

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he won the National Music Prize,
the Radio Television Española Prize.

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Doctor Honoris Causa at his university.

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In the end,

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you arrived, Narciso

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at what you truly deserved,

00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:57.840
but you didn't search for.

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Success.

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Worldwide recognition.

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but in a one-off and perishable way,

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in this country of ours,

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that asks so much,
but gives so little in return.

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What else did you have to do, maestro?

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To open the eyes from so much blindness.

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That crushed you with a blanket of fear,

00:54:19.680 --> 00:54:21.360
and the sword of envy.

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What sound from your fingers

00:54:24.720 --> 00:54:28.040
made them sense their own imperfections?

00:54:29.200 --> 00:54:30.800
What didn't you say to them

00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:32.400
that they asked you for?

00:54:33.200 --> 00:54:35.520
To make them respond so coldly.

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Sometimes I feel sad,

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I have to admit it,

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on the level...

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the level of guitar education,

00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.920
guitar teaching in general,

00:54:53.120 --> 00:54:55.320
for example, in the conservatoires,

00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:57.400
in music schools,

00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.920
that the teaching he contributed
has not been made universal.

00:55:02.120 --> 00:55:04.480
What really surprises me now,

00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:06.560
is that Narciso, now,

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perhaps because he's no longer alive,

00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:12.080
doesn't sound as he should sound,

00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:16.240
on account of his status
and what he did for music.

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That surprises me.

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But, that's life.

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Sometimes people are forgotten.

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But, Narciso is a person
who should never have been forgotten.

00:55:28.040 --> 00:55:31.000
They know who he is,

00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:33.920
they know that he played

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a very different type of guitar, etc.

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But, among young guitarists,

00:55:40.080 --> 00:55:43.440
there is very little awareness
of those things,

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of the musical,
intimate, technical, profound things,

00:55:47.640 --> 00:55:51.320
which were the foundations
of his musical personality.

00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:53.800
The fact that he's been forgotten,

00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:57.520
demonstrates how bad
the Spanish people's memory is,

00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.400
with regards to our greatest figures.

00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:02.720
Something needs to be done.

00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:06.040
If not, the figure of Yepes
risks disappearing.

00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:08.600
Especially among the working class,

00:56:08.680 --> 00:56:12.520
the class that gave him
fame and international recognition.

00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:16.320
He'll never disappear from the elites
or the professionals,

00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.720
because he's an irreplaceable,

00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:20.600
unique and special figure.

00:56:20.720 --> 00:56:25.200
If we'd done in Spain
what the Japanese have done for Narciso,

00:56:25.600 --> 00:56:28.040
in the Americas,
Europe, Germany, France,

00:56:28.120 --> 00:56:30.800
France has done more than Spain
in that respect.

00:56:31.080 --> 00:56:33.840
In this sense, for our greatest names,

00:56:34.200 --> 00:56:37.080
Spain is incredibly unjust.

00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:39.440
But, we shouldn't cry

00:56:39.520 --> 00:56:42.600
about the injustice
that our greatest figures suffer.

00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:44.960
It's enough if one person

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thinks about that person for one second,

00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:51.120
as that gives purpose
to that person's life.

00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:06.520
I really wanted to meet

00:57:07.040 --> 00:57:11.680
the person who had composed the music
for Forbidden Games.

00:57:12.040 --> 00:57:14.640
What brought us together,

00:57:16.600 --> 00:57:18.320
I have to say,

00:57:18.720 --> 00:57:21.240
I fell in love with his soul,
his goodness.

00:57:37.560 --> 00:57:40.400
I think that Narciso...

00:57:42.080 --> 00:57:45.440
achieved his...

00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:47.720
mission in life.

00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:17.800
Now.

00:58:19.160 --> 00:58:21.360
Here, on the first string,

00:58:22.120 --> 00:58:25.840
where you spent so many moments
filled of beauty and love.

00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:28.600
After several months

00:58:28.680 --> 00:58:31.840
travelling your paths through time,

00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:34.920
and through the places where you felt

00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.120
the vibrations of your soul.

00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:40.520
Which, like clay
moulded by your fingers,

00:58:40.600 --> 00:58:42.440
you delivered to the world.

00:58:44.200 --> 00:58:46.200
My feet have trembled

00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.320
walking in your footsteps,

00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:50.920
searching for your hidden traces.

00:58:51.720 --> 00:58:53.280
I feel like an intruder

00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:55.880
in your unseen spaces.

00:58:59.720 --> 00:59:01.240
From Buenafuente to here,

00:59:02.520 --> 00:59:04.520
following your silent music,

00:59:05.680 --> 00:59:09.000
I have learnt so many things
from your immense soul.

00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:11.560
So much...

00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:13.960
So much...

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HUMANS AND MUSIC ARE ALIVE,

00:59:30.560 --> 00:59:32.760
BEINGS WHOSE INFLUENCE OVER EACH OTHER

00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.360
IS SO INTERTWINED
THAT THEY CAN'T BE SEPARATED

00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:43.880
130 RECITALS PER YEAR ON AVERAGE

00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:45.440
50 DISCS, SOME ORIGINALS

00:59:45.520 --> 00:59:48.320
HE RESEARCHED AND RESTORED
6000 OLD MUSICAL SCORES

00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:50.720
DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA
UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA

00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.080
MEMBER OF THE
ACADEMIA ALFONSO X EL SABIO

00:59:53.160 --> 00:59:54.760
NATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE

00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:57.640
MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIA
BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO

00:59:57.720 --> 00:59:59.720
GOLD MEDAL OF MERIT IN THE FINE ARTS

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Translation: Joanne Maddocks
Subtitles: Bbo Subtitulado