It was on November 4th, 1983. Maybe you were in the hall that evening? Numerous spectators were curious to attend S\u00e9rgio and Odair Assad\u2019s first concert in Brussels. Their concert was broadcast live on the Belgian classical radio station and thousands of listeners simultaneously discovered this fabulous Brazilian guitar duo with its amazing virtuosity and spontaneous, sincere musical expression.<\/p>\n
Already well-known in the USA, the Assad Brothers were making their European debuts. They were playing Paul Fischers\u2019 guitars, their long and friendly collaboration with Thomas Humphrey \u2014 the guitarmaker from New York \u2014 would start three years later. It was during that same autumn 1983, while listening to his music played by the Assads, that Astor Piazzolla decided to compose the now famous Tango Suite<\/em> for them.<\/p>\n In 1983, a French journalist wrote: \u201cTheir dedicated work and their boundless imagination, have given S\u00e9rgio and Odair the status of commanders in the world of the guitar. Their duo is a veritable phenomenon which, with time to mature, will go down in history\u201d. His prediction became true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was on November 4th, 1983. Maybe you were in the hall that evening? Numerous spectators were curious to attend S\u00e9rgio and Odair Assad\u2019s first concert in Brussels. Their concert was broadcast live on the Belgian classical radio station and thousands of listeners simultaneously discovered this fabulous Brazilian guitar duo with its amazing virtuosity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"artiste":[89],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[48],"product_tag":[61],"class_list":["post-822","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artiste-duo-assad-en","product_cat-cds","product_tag-classical","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artiste","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gharecords.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}