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Fingerstyle Composer Peppino D’Agostino Connects the Steel-String Guitar Worlds
Since the ’80s, Peppino D’Agostino has created an expansive vision of the acoustic guitar as a concert instrument, tapping into not only the steel-string’s native idioms of folk, blues, and country but also nylon-string traditions from Italy, Spain, and Brazil. Like many fellow explorers of fingerstyle guitar, D’Agostino uses unorthodox tunings, percussion, and other extended
Composer Michael Giacchino is Directing Marvel’s Halloween Special
Image: Tara Ziemba (Getty Images)Over the decades, Michael Giacchino has cemented himself as one of the biggest music composers around, thanks to Lost, the Star Trek reboot films, and The Incredibles, and plenty more. You’ve heard his music a lot in recent years, and now you’ll get to see him take on directing duties for…