Eliot Fisk’s Notes

I am afraid I am personally responsible for Mark’s comments. After your magnificent concert, we spoke briefly about it, and since he and I have known each other for many years,

The loss of Thomas Humphrey last Wednesday, April 16, 2008, leaves a void so big that no one and nothing can fill it, nothing that is except the Paul Bunyan sized, the bigger- than- life- sized memory of this quintessentially American giant who gave to the world of guitar making a legacy as big as his own rollicking personality and stratospherically creative imagination.

A tribute to Joe Pass: Just Jazz Guitar, June 1996

Oscar Ghiglia first entered my life on March 16, 1968, when he came to Philadelphia to play a recital for the Society of the Classical Guitar.

I first became aware of the music of Agustin Barrios Mangore’ through the masterful revisting of this music by the great Venezuelan virtuoso, Alirio Diaz.

On the final day of our first Boston Guitar Fest, after a glorious week of fellowship in and celebration of the love of music, we were stunned by the indescribably painful news of Daniel ‘s passing.

On Thursday last our beloved instrument lost one of its great personalities, the irrepressible, omnivorously-interested-in- everything Philadelphia based guitarist, Peter Segal.

My dear little brother, Matthew, died yesterday afternoon around 4:30 P. M. East Coast Time.

I remember the year of Ralph’s passing because it was also the year I lost my other “foster grandfather”, an amazing, elderly Scotsman named Thomas Robertson, who briefly owned the guitar store where I had my first decent guitar instruction – in fact my only ever regular guitar instruction of any significance.