The technique produces a sound that has a distinctive, softer characteristic, although the control is often more difficult, especially in passages requiring a rapid arpeggio or tremolo technique. The nails are grown and shaped to optimize sound production, but in the "no-nails" approach, the nails are cut short so that fingertips contact the string directly. Some of these influences led him to adopt a "no-nails" approach for guitar playing, which runs counter to the contemporary trend in classical guitar for players to grow the nails of the right hand used to pluck strings. García adopted and expanded upon the traditions of both Tárrega and Pujol. García studied with Emilio Pujol (a pupil of Francisco Tárrega) and he was appointed assistant in 1969, not only to improve his mastery of the guitar and vihuela but also to help Pujol develop musical materials and notes and to conduct master classes attended by advanced students and performing artists worldwide. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco dedicated a composition (Op. He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and founded the first academic department dedicated to classical guitar at the University of New Mexico. Īfter two years imprisonment, García was released ($50,000 was paid by the Kennedy administration to Fidel Castro and returned to the U.S., where became a concert guitarist and educator, performing worldwide with major orchestras, including the Havana Symphony, Los Angeles Sinfonietta, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Dupont Consortium in Washington D.C. Some went on to become accomplished musicians and professors. With this guitar, he formed a makeshift studio in prison with other students. In prison, he worked on the first of two unpublished concertos, convinced his captors to "find him a guitar". He returned to Cuba as part of the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion, was captured, and was imprisoned. He sought and was granted asylum in the United States with support of family and friends.
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He chose to leave Cuba to escape the communist regime at the age of 30, buying a two-way ticket from Havana to Miama, Florida (but using only one part of the ticket).
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He received the degrees of Master of Guitar and Master of Music from the Peyrellade Conservatory, joining their faculty upon graduation in 1954. Joseph on the Rio Grande in 1963 and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque in 1967, where he taught for about 20 years. He established the first guitar departments in United States universities, at the College of St. Héctor Antonio García Hernandez (born November 19, 1930) is a Cuban-American classical guitarist and composer.