Michael Laucke

Michael Laucke

Laucke in 2011
Background information
Also known as Young Mike
Born (1947-01-29) 29 January 1947
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Instrumentalist
  • music industry businessman[1]
  • music producer
Instruments Classical guitar, flamenco guitar
Labels
Associated acts
  • The Flamenco Road Show
  • Michael Laucke & Fiesta Flamenco
  • TRIO 3
Website michaellaucke.com
Michael Laucke's voice
Recorded 2 November 2015
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Michael Laucke (born 29 January 1947) is a Canadian classical, new flamenco, and flamenco guitarist and composer, as well as a music industry businessman.

Laucke was introduced to flamenco by Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía when the two shared a loft in New York City in the early 1970s. He was selected in 1982 by Andrés Segovia to perform for the PBS network at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, following which he became Segovia's pupil. He performed mainly on classical guitar until 1990; from then on, his concerts have consisted exclusively of flamenco and new flamenco works.

In addition to Segovia, Laucke has studied with other classical guitar players, including Julian Bream, Alirio Díaz and Rolando Valdès-Blain. With his more than 100 transcriptions of classical and flamenco music, Laucke is credited with having broadened the guitar repertoire. Still active in a career spanning five decades, he began performing in 1965, recording the first of 16 albums in 1969, and has toured in 25 countries. Several notable Canadian composers have written atonal works for him, including a flamenco concierto for guitar with full symphonic orchestra. SOCAN's The Music Scene magazine considered Laucke to be one of "five of Canada's best-known soloists".[5] Music critic emeritus, historian, and musician Eric McLean of the Montreal Gazette avowed, "Laucke is the person who has done more for the guitar in this country than anyone else."[6] In 2015 Laucke was nominated for the Order of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award, Canada's second highest civilian honour. He has received many other awards and honours throughout his career, including the Grand Prix du Disque for Best Canadian Recording.

Early life

Laucke playing snooker in 1964
Laucke won against the North American snooker champion

Laucke was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 29 January 1947 to parents of Russian and Polish-Jewish heritage. After they separated when Michael was six months old, he was raised and nurtured by his grandmother, who died at the age of 100.[7]

At the age of seven, Laucke appeared in the Montreal Star newspaper for designing and building a boat from 2,000 toothpicks.[8] An expert with the yo-yo by age ten, he soon discovered that he loved performing and competing.[9][10] He was the Montreal champion in a city-wide yo-yo competition among 2,000 contestants, winning a C$60 bicycle.[11] He became interested in the guitar but, because of his brother's disapproval, had to practice at his friends' homes. He took up snooker, becoming a competent player by the age of thirteen, so talented that he was given a job as a demonstrator for the Brunswick Corporation, a snooker table manufacturer. Laucke learned everything he knew about billiards from George Chenier, a fellow Montrealer and the North American snooker champion. Laucke did not see him again until four years later when they faced each other in the North American snooker championships in Montreal, with Laucke beating out Chenier and winning the championship. Laucke recalls, "Then I decided to leave snooker, I had done what I wanted to do... My love for the guitar was overwhelming. There was a lot more money in snooker, but snooker was just a passion, and music was my love."[12][13][14] Laucke's snooker winnings allowed him to finance 110 trips from Montreal to New York City to study the classical guitar with Franco-Spaniard Rolando Valdès-Blain.[15][16]

Early career

With Frank Angelo as his manager since 1961, Laucke performed his first guitar concert in Montreal in 1965, a program of atonal music with the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1971, following the first of his many concerts at the National Gallery of Art, The Washington Post proclaimed that Laucke had displayed "the highest form of virtuosity".[17] His first concert in New York took place in 1972 at the Greenwich House Music School, where Laucke was discovered by Senator Claiborne Pell.[18][19] In 1973 Laucke starred in a documentary produced by Radio-Québec called La Guitare,[20] and in 1976 he performed at Montreal's Summer Olympic Games.[21]

Laucke poses together with his teacher Julian Bream
With his teacher the classical guitarist Julian Bream

Laucke studied with several classical guitar masters: Franco–Spaniard Valdès-Blain from 1963 to 1977, Julian Bream in 1969 as winner of the Julian Bream Master classes, Alirio Díaz from 1977 to 1979, and Andrés Segovia from 1982 to 1986.[22][23] Laucke was introduced to flamenco by Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía when the two shared a loft in New York City in the early 1970s;[24][25] together, they gave private performances for the New York City jet set.[25][26][27] Laucke was frequently hired to play at the launching of Giorgio di Sant' Angelo's new fashion lines and later at Calvin Klein's.[28] In 1977 he founded Trio 3 with Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr and Pauline Vaillancourt;[29] in the same year D'Addario guitar strings became Laucke's sponsor.[30][31]

His recording of works by William Walton, Richard Rodney Bennett and François Morel on the Radio Canada International label (RCI 457) won the Canadian Music Council's Grand Prix du Disque in 1979[32][33] for the Best Canadian Recording. Music critics took note.

In 1980, with an increasing number of concerts and recordings and a busy travel schedule, Laucke became concerned that he would not have enough hours left for practising. He invented a "practiser", a small, wooden fingerboard, with six strings stretched across a bridge. The device measured eight by four inches and allowed him to practice quietly during travel. Laucke found that "Those extra hours of finger exercises pay off in handsome performance dividends".[38]

Laucke recorded his last classical album in 1981 with singer Riki Turofsky and Guitar and Lute magazine declared it "One of the best voice and guitar albums you will ever hear".[39] Although Laucke had played both classical and flamenco guitar music from an early age, he performed mainly on classical guitar until 1990.[40] From then on his concerts included many flamenco and new flamenco works he learned from De Lucia. Beginning in late 1990, his concerts have consisted exclusively of flamenco and new flamenco works.[41]

Teaching

He was a professor of guitar at Concordia University in Montreal in 1976, but left after two years to pursue a performing career, not personally teaching guitar since. Ten years later, however, he did pass along his guitar knowledge in an eight-tape instructional video series largely consisting of information he had learned from his teachers Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, Alirio Díaz, and Valdès-Blain. About this video series Guitar Player magazine said "Laucke's enthusiasm is infectious,"[42] and Frets Magazine spoke of "thoughtful and thorough instruction".[43] He also published articles on classical guitar.[44][45][46]

Style and influences

Laucke performing with his group onstage at Place des Arts, Montreal
With his group at Place des Arts – Montreal
Flamenco Road by Michael Laucke
Excerpt from Flamenco Road song by Laucke in 24 track version, a sample of the (new flamenco) style

Laucke's classical/flamenco musical style is a blend of his classical studies with Bream, Segovia, Valdès-Blain, and his friendship with de Lucía.[47][48] Although classical and flamenco guitar are two quite different musical styles, the French newspaper Le Soleil chronicled Laucke's feelings and reasoning about performing both.[49][50]

Since the classical guitar is limited, you eventually look for something else. I was doing flamenco, and I love it. There are more varied techniques in flamenco; just in the right hand alone, we have 20 of them."[49]

I would like flamenco to become the new jazz! Flamenco has everything that it takes to follow in the footsteps of jazz and become a language to people of all countries and all cultures. We forget that before being a global current, jazz was only the mode of expression of blacks in New Orleans! Like jazz, flamenco is based on improvisation and dialogue between instrumentalists. And flamenco is something even more, since players also interact with the dancers.
(English translation)[50]

His blend of the classical and flamenco styles, sometimes referred to as "new flamenco" (nuevo flamenco),[50] led music critic Eric McLean[51] of the Montreal Gazette to proclaim, "It is Laucke's interest in flamenco that makes him special: He might be called the first interpreter of flamenco music, in the sense that he borrows these traditional works by Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Paco de Lucía, and employs them in his own fashion, a practice to which they agree."[52] He was given, by the Canadian federal and provincial governments, "full recognition as the person who has done more for the guitar in this country than anyone else", and is one of "five of Canada's best-known soloists", according to The Music Scene magazine published by Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).[5]

On 12 September 2001 Laucke released a CD called Flamenco Road, consisting mainly of his own compositions in the new flamenco style, which he also arranged. Recorded at five different studios in Montreal, each chosen for its unique acoustics, the CD required the use of 24 tracks, arguably the only recording in this style to employ such elaborate instrumentation. The tracks employ five guitars (flamenco, Spanish, classical and electric guitars), a rhythm section consisting of bongos, four congas and a rock drum set blended with other percussion instruments such as claves, maracas and castanets, three dancers performing typical "palmas" (hand-clapping) in synchronization, three trumpets, three pianos and a "country-style" violinist.[53]

In an interview for Voir magazine, Laucke stated, "It is also very influenced by my classical background. So it's a smoother flamenco." Another example of this style from the album can be heard in Laucke's treatment of the well-known classical guitar transcription "Leyenda", which is given a flamenco rendition using several percussion instruments (claves, maracas, special castanets mounted on wood blocks, chimes and a large gong), bass and flute.[54]

Flamenco Road reached number one on video charts across Canada for five consecutive weeks.[55]

Laucke summarized: "The Spanish guitar remains my first love. The flamenco guitar is my passion."[25]

Paco de Lucía

With his friend and mentor Paco de Lucía
"Between Two Seas" ("Entre dos Aguas") by Paco de Lucía, arranged and played by Laucke

In the 1970s, Laucke moved to New York City to further his career. He was asked by his mentor, Valdès-Blain, if he would mind sharing his one room apartment with flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía.[11][56] Although Laucke had played flamenco since he was a child, he was not comfortable playing it in public, so it had remained something he played only for his own pleasure. In the French newspaper Le Soleil, Laucke declared, "This meeting changed my life. We lived together in New York, and he taught me flamenco works which were not written anywhere and to which no other guitarist had access." Laucke taught de Lucía music by Bach and Villa-Lobos and de Lucía in return showed Laucke some of the secrets of his art of flamenco, an oral tradition handed down through generations, "their secrets and knowledge jealously guarded". "So for me to be taught all these techniques by a guitarist of Paco's caliber was an incredible stroke of luck", Laucke says. (English translation)[24]

Laucke affirmed in the Montreal Gazette that "[de Lucía] was the greatest natural talent I have ever come across. At the time, Laucke was impressed by a piece called Entre dos aguas (Between two Seas) which de Lucía was creating, and it was this work that would later make him a national hero in Spain." Since de Lucía did not read music, Laucke offered to teach him but he refused. When the question arose as to whether Laucke would ever play de Lucía's compositions in public, he advised Laucke, "you must do it in your own style".[57]

During this period, de Lucía and Laucke gave a concert in the Spanish Embassy, where Countess Elsa Perretti, jewelry designer at Tiffany's, first heard the two guitarists. She immediately invited them to one of her parties in her New York penthouse—"the closest thing to the 18th century intellectual and artistic salon to be found anywhere these days"[9]—where de Lucía and Laucke performed in private for the New York City jet set, including fashion designer Calvin Klein, Andy Warhol, Halston, and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. "I was only 21 at the time, and it all seemed like a dream," Laucke recalled.[25][26][27]

He teamed up with de Lucía again to give a series of concerts combining the two repertoires.[9] Many newspapers talked about this association. The Canadian Spanish magazine El Popular said, "Moreover, the great guitarist Laucke is convinced that flamenco possesses enormous seductive powers. 'The harmonies and the rhythm leave no one indifferent', says Laucke."[58]

The meeting with de Lucía led Laucke to perform two incompatible guitar styles. In 1991, he recorded de Lucía's compositions on the album Spanish Guitar Stories, arguably the first time a guitarist would record de Lucía's works, other than de Lucía himself,[59] who shared his appreciation of the album, saying it was "very beautiful, all of it, from a to z, even my pieces!"[58]

Contributions to the guitar repertoire

Transcriptions

SOCAN lists 112 classical works transcribed for the guitar by Laucke, illustrating the extent to which Laucke has broadened the guitar's repertoire in music of the Renaissance, classical, baroque, and romantic eras, as well as in flamenco. Library and Archives Canada and Canadian Libraries lists 43 music recordings, music scores of transcriptions for guitar, and Canadian guitar articles written by Laucke.[60] Waterloo Music Company published and distributed 24 of Laucke's guitar transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach,[61] Luis de Narváez,[62] Eric Satie,[63] Heitor Villa-Lobos[22] and others.

Three Gymnopedies by Eric Satie

Three Gymnopedies by Eric Satie, transcribed and performed on guitar by Laucke
"Gymnopédie no. 1"
"Gymnopédie no. 2"
"Gymnopédie no. 3"

While living in Greenwich Village, New York, in the early 1970s, Laucke became interested in the French music of Eric Satie, "the world's first hippie".[64] At that time, only simplified arrangements of Three Gymnopédies existed for the guitar, so Laucke set out to transcribe Satie's three works from the piano score. Determined to fit all the notes from the original piano version onto the six strings of the guitar, over the course of three weeks he calculated the number of times open strings would occur per note.[65]

In 1979 Laucke signed with the Waterloo Music Publishing Company, which that year published the sheet music of his transcription of Three Gymnopédies, the first of many transcriptions by Laucke to be published by Waterloo and arguably the only version for guitar to include all the notes from the original piano composition.[63][66] In 1985 the company created The Michael Laucke Series of guitar arrangements and transcriptions.[67]

In the introductory notes to his sheet music of Three Gymnopédies, Laucke comments: "The characteristic harmonies of much of the music of Erik Satie belong to the impressionist period and, though originally written for the piano, are extremely well-suited to the natural idiomatic expression of the guitar. This has led me to make these transcriptions which will enrich the repertoire of the guitar while remaining faithful to Satie's intentions."[63]

After giving many concert performances of these works, Laucke recorded them on his CD entitled Flamenco Road which held the number one position on video charts across Canada for six weeks.[55] The liner notes read "My arrangements of 'The [sic] Three Gymnopedies' comprise ALL the notes of the original piano versions: a most complex process since all the piano sounds must fit comfortably, or uncomfortably, onto the six strings of the guitar." He continues to say "the present recording is done as it is in concert, on one classical guitar, without overdubbing. My tempo is a little quicker than when the pieces are played on the piano, due to the shorter resonance time of notes played on the Spanish guitar. Now and then, I use a "vibrato" and slides, which, of course, can't be done on the piano but which add warmth of expression to this undeniably charming, exotic and mystic music." [68]

Original works

Laucke has had 25 original, Canadian atonal works written for him, among them the Flamenco Concierto for guitar and full symphonic orchestra by Michel-Georges Brégent,[69][70][71] Me duele España by François Morel,[72][73] Exploration by Jean Papineau-Couture,[75] and Pour guitare, Claude Vivier's only work for the guitar.[76] Laucke performed all 25 works in major halls, on CBC radio and on his record albums and all of them were commissioned by and dedicated to Laucke.[77]

In 1984, critics began to take note of the growth of new Canadian guitar works energized by Laucke. In La Presse, a Canadian newspaper, music critic Claude Gingras found in Laucke "an interpreter who could not be more convincing".[78] Canadian composer Claude Vivier expressed his appreciation to Laucke. In his letters, Vivier states that he had "hardly ever met a musician as committed and dedicated, of such great quality and, above all, of such great completeness and intense capacity for work".[79][80]

World tours

Laucke with guitar on top of great wall of China for CBC documentary
During the CBC documentary on the Great Wall of China

Laucke's career spans over 50 years, with concert and television appearances in 25 countries.[81][82] He has performed in England (Wigmore Hall),[83][84] the U.S. in Carnegie Hall[75] and the White House,[85] Bulgaria, Hungary,[86] in China, on the Great Wall of China,[87] in Hong Kong,[88] Spain,[89] Israel,[90] India,[91][92] Japan, Morocco, Pakistan[93] and Russia.[94]

In Canada, he has given annual concerts at Montreal's Place des Arts since 1986.[95] Following a concert in 1990 in Quebec City's Grand Théâtre de Québec, the French newspaper Le Soleil wrote a review entitled "Michael Laucke makes one fall in love with the guitar", stating, "More than a virtuoso, charismatic Michael Laucke is pure talent! For him playing is instinctive, just like breathing ...irresistible Michael Laucke."[96] Critics have often written about Laucke's stage presence. A Chicago music critic described how "His relaxed manner, beaming smile and gracious speaking voice won the hearts of the audience before he even played a note".[97]

He performed many concerts in Washington, DC, under the auspices of U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell,[18] including several at the National Gallery of Art. The Washington Post proclaimed that Laucke displayed "the highest form of virtuosity"[17] and is "one of the finest guitarists to have played in Washington in a long time".[98] Pell's former campaign manager, Raymond Nelson, handled logistics for many of Laucke's performances in the U.S.[18][99] Nelson helped organize U.S. President Jimmy Carter's inauguration and dedicated a photo of the event to Laucke.[100]

Personal life

With Elton John, working on the fight against HIV/AIDS

Laucke became a director[101] of the Mac AIDS Fund (M·A·F) in 1994.[102] After a fourteen year tenure, he became honorary charter member of the board of directors and no longer participated in its activities. According to Laucke, MAF's directors helped coordinate the film Pandemic: Facing AIDS by Rory Kennedy, and MAF became a secondary sponsor while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation became title sponsor.[103]

Present day

After 50 years of concert performances, Laucke continues an active career. Besides numerous concert appearances in North America, he has recently accepted more international tours. A new album called Flamenco Road 2 is in preparation as of September 2015. He is also an entrepreneur and businessman in the music industry.[1][82]

In 2012 Laucke was nominated for the Order of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was again nominated for the same award; the results will be announced early in 2016.[104]

Media

"Asturias" (Leyenda), arranged, transcribed and performed on guitar by Laucke
"Asturias" (Leyenda)
This flamenco rendition uses bass, flute, and several percussion instruments (claves, maracas, special castanets mounted on wood blocks, chimes and a large gong).
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J. S. Bach ~ bourree and double, performed by Laucke
J.S. Bach ~ Bourree and Double, arranged for Classical Guitar by Laucke
This is a transcription from the original work, "Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002."
Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1", performed by Laucke
Eric Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1, played by Laucke
This transcription necessitates intricate fingering to render all the notes of the piano version onto the guitar.
FLAMENCO ROAD Video Clip with Laucke
FLAMENCO ROAD Video Clip with Laucke
An example of a new flamenco composition using 24 tracks.

Selected works

CD

Title Year Label Notes
Flamenco Road 2001 Justin-Time Records[55] ...number one on video charts across Canada for five consecutive weeks
Michael Laucke & Fiesta Flamenco: Live 1996 DeMuzik Entertainment Group ...recorded live at Place des Arts, Montreal, Canada
Spanish Guitar 1993 METACOM
Momentum – IMAX Film (the music) 1992 NFB Special Edition
(National Film Board of Canada)		 ...shown in the Canadian pavilion during the

Universal Exposition of Seville (Expo '92)‍—‌a world's fair. Co-directed

by Colin Low, it is the first film in 48 frames/sec IMAX HD

Spanish Guitar Stories 1991 Intermede Communications[105]
Light Classics 1990 Intermede Communications[106]

LP

Title Year Label Notes
Take A Short Cut 1989 Intermede Communications[107]
Canadian Guitar Music 1987 MLCO Records
Music For Jacques Cartier 1986 RCI (Radio Canada International) Commissioned by the Government of Canada[108]
Canadian Guitar Quartet: Live From Montreal 1985 MLCO Records
Com-Possession 1985 McGill University Records[109] Winner of Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music[110][111]
Divergences 1984 RCI 583 (Radio Canada International)[112][113]
Jade Eyes 1980 CBS /Aquitaine[39] ...best international classical guitar album of the year[114]
Michael Laucke, Guitarist 1979 RCI 457 (Radio Canada International) Grand Prix du Disque,[115] Best Canadian recording
Trio 3 1979 RCI 497 (Radio Canada International) Members Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Pauline Vaillancourt

and Michael Laucke

Transcription 1969 RCI 367 (Radio Canada International) includes Départ and Iikkii by François Morel

for Guitar and chamber orchestra

Filmography

Title Year Corporation Producer
Momentum (IMAX film) 1992 NFB (National Film Board of Canada) Mark Zannis
I Won't Dance 1991 LaGauchet Productions and Ciné Films Canada Raymond Gravel
How to Play Solo Classical Guitar 1985 Rogers Educational Video Productions Nick NotarAngelo
Michael Laucke: Guitar recital 1983 CBC Winnipeg, Canada

(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

 David Waters
Segovia: Metropolitan museum: a master class 1982 PBS (Public Broadcasting System) and

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York co-production

 Nathan Kroll
Form & Fire: Michael Laucke 1981 Concordia University, Montreal Robert Frank
Musique instrumentale: La guitare 1973 Radio-Québec[20] Robert Desrosiers

Atonal works written for Laucke

The following works have been performed by Laucke in Carnegie Hall (performing Jean Papineau-Couture), Wigmore Hall (Michel-Georges Brégent),[69] and National Gallery of Art (Michel Gonneville).[116] In Canada, the SMCQ honoured Laucke's contribution by featuring him in a two-hour-long concert.[117]

Legend:

Date Composer Musical work Instrumentation Length
03/06/70, RCI 367 François Morel Départ Guitar and chamber orchestra 9'25
08/04/72, RCI 367 François Morel Iikkii Guitar and chamber orchestra 16'30
05/01/76, CBC Claude Vivier[76] Pour Guitare Guitar 5'
Pour Guitare by Claude Vivier
05/01/76, CBC Walter Boudreau Le Cercle gnostique Voice, flute, guitar (TRIO 3) 5'
02/25/79, RCI 457 François Morel Me duele españa[118] Guitar 21'
Me Duele Espana by Francois Morel
09/23/80, CBC David Eagle[119] Contrastare no 1 Bass, flute, guitar 10'
10/26/81, CBC Alan Crossman[120] La Fille du Pecheur Voice, guitar 15'
03/05/81, CBC Bruno Deschênes[121] Calme en soi Guitar 8'
02/25/82, CBC Claude Lassonde[122]
  • Quatre études
  • Anachorétisme
  • Quatre mouvements
  • Image et Sonoritéé
  • Silène pur Satyre
  • La Règne
  • Guitar
  • Guitar
  • Guitar
  • Two guitars
  • Flute, guitar
  • Voice, flute, guitar (TRIO 3)
 4'
14'
8'30
4'20
5'20
15'30
04/16/82, CBC & MUR 09/28/83 John Rea (composer) Com-possession[123] Guitar, string quartet 15'
04/28/83, CBC John Burke ...ascends at full moon Guitar, clarinet 15'
11/08/83, CBC Jean Papineau-Couture Exploration[75] Guitar 12'
01/14/83, CBC Michel Gonneville Le Sommeil, le Regard, le Choix Guitar 21'
03/18/83, RCI 497 Wolfgang Bottenberg[124] Three Amerindian Songs, Prelude Voice, flute, guitar (TRIO 3) 7'30
03/18/83, RCI 497 Michel-Georges Brégent[69] Sapho Voice, flute, guitar (TRIO 3) Violin and guitar 15'9'
1983, RCI 583 François Morel Divergences Guitar, violin 8'30
1983, RCI 583 Denis Dion[125] Pas de deux Guitar, violin 4'30
1983, RCI 583 Leon Zukert[126] Cobwebs in my Spanish castle Guitar 7'
09/25/86, CBC Donald Steven Chamber Concierto for guitar Guitar, 15 instruments 20'
1991, CBC Michel-Georges Brégent[69] Concierto Flamenco[70] Guitar, orchestra (Montreal Symphony Orchestra) 20'

Articles

Laucke has published several articles in music journals about the growth in popularity of the guitar in Canada:

Highlights and awards

Laucke playing for Andres Segovia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
With Andrés Segovia‍—‌PBS TV at Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC

See also

Notes

1.^ 2.^ 3.^ A guitar transcription consists of rewriting a piece of music, either solo or ensemble, from the instrument for which it was originally intended onto the classical guitar. A transcriptions in this sense is sometimes called an arrangement, although strictly speaking a transcriptions is a faithful adaptation, whereas an arrangement changes significant aspects of the original piece.
4.^ Virus Montréal remarked, "Few instrumentalists devote themselves with such vigor, enthusiasm, daring and mastery".[140]
5.^ In 1980 Music magazine called him a major talent who "subtly imprints his own personality on the music", investing each phrase with his personal touch.[141]
6.^ MusiCanada magazine praised Laucke's technique and sensitivity.[142]
7.^ Voir magazine reported, "Making music and living alongside such a being led Laucke to have a different view of this music that previously seemed too easy for someone who had a classical training background. His cohabitation with de Lucía led to a special and powerful musical exchange which Laucke continues to treasure. It is only this year (1990) that Laucke has managed to record works which de Lucía taught him." Of course, de Lucía has his own personal style, and in fact all flamenco works are intimately connected to their composer. "But in Laucke's interpretation of de Lucía's compositions, their essence comes alive."[25]
8.^ The newspaper Aurora (Israel) stated, "Michael Laucke had, above all, two great masters‍—‌Segovia on the classical guitar and de Lucía in flamenco. Segovia did not appreciate flamenco, and he often referred to it as tavern music. Laucke does not share this opinion and speaks of works of art in the compositions of Sabicas and de Lucía which contain the hidden secrets of this original, pure form of Spanish music expression."(English translation)[89]
9.^ Laucke believes that, "For a guitarist, playing flamenco is most rewarding because this music is tailor-made for the guitar and allows the classical guitarist to move from one technique to another, although it is difficult."[25]

References

  1. 1 2 McLean, Eric (1 November 1986). "When Laucke plays the guitar, he means business". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 6 April 2016. He is a private enterprise—and an enterprise of some complexity. The name of it is Michael Laucke and Company, and it involves not only his concert career, but his recordings, his taped guitar lessons and his international negotiations
  2. ↑ Astier, Matthew (1991). "Spanish guitar stories [sound recording] / Michael Laucke". amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Intermède Musique. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Astier, Matthew. "Light classics [sound recording] / Michael Laucke". amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Intermède Musique. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Astier, Matthew (1985). "Winners of the Jules Léger Prize for new chamber music [sound recording]". amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Montreal, McGill University Records. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. 1 2 "SOCAN music. people. connected.". www.socan.ca. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  6. 1 2 McLean, Eric (21 May 1988). "Guitarist Laucke bids temporary farewell to Montreal". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 20 April 2016. Both the Canada Council and the Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs are giving him full recognition as the person who has done more for the guitar in this country than anyone else
  7. ↑ Vital, Francisco Jose (14 June 1996). "Michael Laucke Da al Flamenco el Lugar que Merece" [Michael Laucke raises flamenco to the heights it deserves]. El Popular. Inspiración que le vino primero de su abuela, la qual se encargó de su educacion y le inspiró confianza en sí mismo. Michael Laucke nos habla con tenura de esta abuela que estuvo a punto de alcanzar los 100 años de edad, y que tan le ha aportado. [Inspiration that first came to him from his grandmother who raised him and who gave him self confidence. When he speaks of his grandmother, who gave him so much and who passed away at 100 years of age, it is with great tenderness.] (English translation)
  8. ↑ "Building is his hobby". Montreal Star. 26 January 1954. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 McLean, Eric (16 January 1982). "Guitarist Laucke: Color him competitive". The Saturday Gazette. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Ruvinsky, Maxine (29 June 1988). "Guitarist at home in concert and pool halls". The London Free Press. Retrieved 20 April 2016. In every superhero, I saw myself.
  11. 1 2 Urquhart, Carl (2 May 1988). "Yo-yo whiz masters all kinds of strings". The Montreal Daily News. Retrieved 20 April 2016. At an early stage, he discovered he got pleasure from exhibiting his talents while people watched. Out of 2000 people who had gathered to compete, Laucke emerged as the winner, taking home a $60 bicycle.
  12. ↑ "Concert career clicks for guitarist: Guitarist and billiards champ Michael Laucke says the movement of billiard balls resembles music". Brandon Sun Saturday. 9 July 1988.
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  17. 1 2 Reinthaler, Joan (7 June 1971). "Fine Guitar at the Gallery". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 April 2016. I was one of the lucky ones with a seat up front because Laucke is one of the finest guitarists to have played in Washington in a long time... He projected the music rather than the virtuosity and to do so is the highest form of virtuosity. He commanded a world of expressiveness... He also brought an unerring sense of rhythmic timing and the nimble fingers necessary to produce beautifully even ornaments... Throughout the concert, Laucke's playing was a model of clarity, evenness, control and good sense
  18. 1 2 3 Nelson, Ray (23 February 1977). "United States Senate Committee". Flickr – Photo Sharing!. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Retrieved 6 April 2016. (Laucke) has been acclaimed in several concerts I have been instrumental in arranging forhim in the Washington area. He has played at the National Gallery of art, the Corcoran Gallery and the Senate Office Building in programs sponsored by the United states Senate Staff Club last year when I was Club President.
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  21. 1 2 McLean (Critic Emeritus), Eric (21 May 1988). "Guitarist Laucke bids temporary farewell to Montreal". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 20 April 2016. Early in his career, he delighted international visitors to Montreal's Olympic Games in a concert performance that was also transmitted live to a TV audience around the world.
  22. 1 2 Bourgouin, François (21 June 2007). "Michael Laucke". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
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  24. 1 2 Tremblay, Régis (20 October 1990). "Au GTQ (Grand Théâtre du Québec): un fiesta flamenco avec Michael Laucke" [At the GTQ (Grand Théâtre du Québec) : a flamenco fiesta with Michael Laucke]. . M. Laucke joue le flamenco depuis qu'il est enfant, "mais je n'avais jamais osé le jouer en public. C'était quelque chose pour moi seul. Il y a une rencontre qui a changé ma vie: on m'a demandé si je pouvais accueillir un guitariste du nom de Paco de Lucia que je ne connaissais pas à l'époque. On a donné des concerts ensemble et je l'ai hébergé (Laucke declared "This meeting changed my life. We lived together in New York, and he taught me flamenco works which were not written anywhere and to which no other guitarist had access." Laucke taught de Lucía music by Bach and Villa-Lobos and de Lucía in return showed Laucke some of the secrets of his art of flamenco, an oral tradition handed down through generations, "their secrets and knowledge jealously guarded". "So for me to be taught all these techniques by a guitarist of Paco's caliber was an incredible stroke of luck", Laucke says. (English translation))
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Olivier, Dominique (24 May 1990). "Good Laucke". Voir magazine. Faire de la musique et vivre aux côtés d'un tel être à donner à Laucke une tout autre vision de cette musique qui lui sembla auparavant trop facile pour quelqu'un qui avait suivi la formation classique. Cette cohabitation donna lieu à des échanges culturels privilégiés dont Laucke porte en lui le trésor et l'exclusivité. C'est cette année seulement qu'il a réussi à endisquer les pièces qui lui a transmises de Lucia, un disque qui sortait d'ailleurs le 18 mai dernier. Le style de Lucia, bien sûr, lui est personnel, comme tout flamenco appartient à son créateur, mais il subsiste dans l'interprétation de Laucke l'esprit que le compositeur a su lui insuffler. Cette musique qui vient de l'humain et qui est faite pour et par l'interprète, se préoccupe de comment la main est construite, ce qui permet au guitariste classique de passer, bien que péniblement, d'une technique à l'autre. "Pour un guitariste c'est tout ce qu'il y a de plus enrichissant parce que c'est une musique faite pour la guitare. ("Making music and living alongside such a being led Laucke to have a different view of this music...(English translation))
  26. 1 2 McLean, Eric (21 May 1988). "Guitarist Laucke bids temporary farewell to Montreal". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 20 April 2016. Laucke was very much part of the jet set in New York of the 70s – a friend of Andy Warhol, Calvin Klein and Giorgio di Santangelo.
  27. 1 2 Galloway, Myron (19 May 1990). "From Montreal's Waverly Street to a castle in Spain". The Suburban. During those years [the early 1970s] he was also taken up by New York's jet set. Through Peretti, he became friendly with … Andy Warhol, and designers Giorgio di Santangelo, Halston and Calvin Klein, and was frequently hired to play at the launching of their new lines.
  28. ↑ "SA spring collections: Fresh and wearable". Women's Wear Daily. 5 November 1976. The classical guitar played at Giorgio Sant'Angelo's collection set the pace for a more subdued Sant'Angelo--less hysterical but still idea-filled.
  29. ↑ Plant, John (April 1980). "Trois des plus formidables virtuoses de Montreal: Entrevue avec Le Trio 3" [Three of the most formidable virtuosos in Montreal:Interview with Trio 3]. Virus Montreal.
  30. ↑ "Classical News". www.drumsontheweb.com. January 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2015. Michael Laucke is in the recording studio...
  31. ↑ "Michael Laucke: Classical and Flamenco Guitar". January 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2015. Michael Laucke is in the recording studio...
  32. ↑ Warren, George (April 1980). "Record Reviews". Guitar and Lute magazine. One of the best in recent years is Michael Laucke's oddly misnamed album "Transcription", (which contains nothing but original guitar works) on Radio Canada international 457; the material includes the Walton Bagatelles and the Bennett Impromptus, splendidly presented.
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  34. 1 2 3 4 Inglis, Alexander (1 September 1980). "Record Reviews". Music Magazine. ...a major talent.
  35. 1 2 3 4 Gingras, Claude (Summer 1980). "In Review". MusiCanada. Michael Laucke's admirable repertoire of contemporary works written especially for guitar is certainly praiseworthy, as are the performers' technique and sensitivity. The recording has already been awarded a Grand Prix du Disque-Canada.
  36. 1 2 3 4 Culver, Andrew (29 May 1979). "McGill wins recording prize". Montreal Star. The best recorded performance of a Canadian work was the guitarist Michael Laucke... which also took top honors in the jazz recording category for Jazz Canada Montreux 1978.
  37. 1 2 3 4 "Record Reviews". International Musician (Official journal of the American Federation of Musicians). May 1980. Michael Laucke's solo classical guitar album won the Grand Prix du Disque-Canada 1979
  38. ↑ Urquhart, Carl (2 May 1988). "Yo-yo whiz masters all kinds of strings". The Montreal Daily News. Retrieved 20 April 2016. Eight years ago, he invented a small, wooden fingerboard, with six strings stretched across a bridge. ...the eight-by-four-inch device can be plucked during long flights and in airport lobbies. Laucke gets some odd stares from passers-by, but those extra hours of finger exercises pay off in handsome performance dividends.
  39. 1 2 Laucke, Michael; Turofsky, Riki (March 1981). "Jade eyes". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
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  42. 1 2 Forte, Dan (1 July 1986). "Classical Guitar Instructional Video Series with Michael Laucke". Guitar Player magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2015. (Laucke's) enthusiasm is infectious.
  43. 1 2 Hanson, Mark (1 May 1987). "How to Play Classical Guitar by Michael Laucke". Frets Magazine. ...thoughtful, and thorough instruction.
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  48. 1 2 Tremblay, Régis (20 October 1990). "Au GTQ (Grand Théâtre du Québec); une "Fiesta flamenco" avec Michael Laucke" [At GTQ (Grand Théâtre du Québec); a "Fiesta flamenco" with Michael Laucke]. Le Soleil. Puisque la guitare classique est limitée, on finit par chercher autre chose. Je faisais du flamenco, et je aime ça. Il y a plus de diverses techniques en flamenco; juste à la main droite, nous en avons 20. (Since the classical guitar is limited, you eventually look for something else. I was doing flamenco, and I love it. There are more varied techniques in Flamenco; just in the right hand alone, we have 20 of them.)
    (English translation)
  49. 1 2 3 Tremblay, Régis (22 October 1994). "Michael Laucke, Star du Nouveau Flamenco" [Michael Laucke, Star of Nouveau Flamenco]. . Je voudrais que le flamenco devienne le nouveau jazz!Le flamenco a tout ce qu'il faut pour suivre les traces du jazz et devenir un langage pour les gens de tous pays et de toutes cultures. On oublie qu'avant d'être un courrant mondial, le jazz n'était que le mode d'expression des Noirs de La Nouvelle-Orléans! Comme le jazz, le flamenco est basé sur l'improvisation et le dialogue entre instrumentistes. Le flamenco a même quelque chose en plus, puisque les joueurs dialoguent aussi avec les danseurs.
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  136. ↑ Photo By Renowned Photographer Sam Tata
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  138. ↑ Plant, John (December 1979). "Disq". Virus Montreal. Few instrumentalists devote themselves with such vigor, enthusiasm, daring and mastery to the task of interpreting new literature for guitar. Morel has integrated guitar techniques (all the resources of the guitar) into a long twenty-minute work which, in Laucke's masterly interpretation, becomes very moving. The Bagatelles of Walton are, of course, of a lighter character; but their technical demands are still tremendous. Here again the clearness and élan of Laucke's playing are admirable.
  139. ↑ Inglis, Alexander (September 1980). "Record Reviews". Music magazine. On the evidence of this release, he has within him the building blocks of the major talent. Even in the first track, a Bagatelle by Walton, Laucke subtly imprints his own personality on the music. He invests each phrase with his personal touch. The repertoire is welcome on yet another front. The repertoire is rarely committed to disc. Like Walton's Five Bagatelles, Richard Rodney Bennett's Five Impromptus are dedicated to Julian Bream, one of Laucke's more celebrated teachers. The longest work is by Québec composer François Morel, entitled Me duele Espana.
  140. ↑ Gingras, Claude (Summer 1980). "In Review". MusiCanada magazine. Michael Laucke's admirable repertoire of contemporary works written especially for guitar is certainly praiseworthy, as are the performers' technique and sensitivity. The recording has already been awarded a Grand Prix du Disque-Canada.

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