Andres Segovia - Variations on a Theme by Mozart

Been posting clips from various guitarists, but not Segovia yet. Arguably he is responsible more than anyone else for the popularity of the guitar in the twentieth century, since he re-established its common use in classical music, a trend which then influenced a lot of popular musicians in the 1930s. Not to say that the popularity of the guitar as a relatively cheap and portable instrument for poor people, in places like Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, didn't matter -- but Segovia was applying pressure from the other, more "respectable" side of society.