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Julian Bream by Wilfred M. Appleby, p. 7

October/December 1971 No. 114

Announcing the new major work in Julian Bream's programmes at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Ibid. Guitar Music by Alfred M. Appleby, p. 12

Discuses the Carey Blyton the new piece written for Julian Bream called The Bream. The composer uses the large freshwater fish in a slow stream as an inspiration for the composition.

ibid. Town Hall, Birmingham. p.19

Julian Bream announcement Guitar recital at the Town Hall in Birmingham England on November 9th at 7:45 p.m.

Julian Bream by Wilfred M. Appleby

July/September 1971, p. 4  No. 113

Julian Bream back at Cheltenham. Guitar recital at the Town Hall on April 29th. Appleby gave high praise to Julian and even referred to him as "Mr. Magic". The article also mentioned that Bream was on Colour TV on May 19th playing a Prelude by Bach, Homenaje by de Fall and Fandangulillo by Turina. . On May 26th he made another TV appearance playing music by de Visee and Granados. Finally, his 23rd concert tour of America is scheduled for October but before he will perform in Austria, Belgium and Germany

Guitar
April 1974

Guitar Player 
October 1971
Article: Classical Genius

Guitar
October 1973

Creative Guitar International

by Ruth and Jerry Mock

Fall 1974, Vol 2, No. 1, p. 12

The article references a BMG article by Graham Wade called An Obituary for Guitar News. The entire BMG article was quoted in reference to the demise of the publication. The article mentioned the importance of Guita News when it came to reporting all things classical guitar news and how it closely followed the professional life of Segovia, Bream and Williams.

Ibid, Letters, p. 14

Small article about how Julian is no longer the only guitarist that also plays the lute and unlike the younger players, Bream still uses a guitar technique to play both instruments.

Guitar News

Julian Bream by Wilfred M. Appleby

October/December 1972. p. 13

No. 118

Review of the Cheltenham Festival at the Town Hall on July 1212th. Julian gained high praise for his performance at the Melos Ensemble's Concert. Aside from Mozart's Divertimento, the rest of his programme was focused on modern composers. Bream Played Bennet's Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, Walton's Five Bagatelles and Rawsthorne's Elegy. Elegy "was edited and completed by Julian Bream using Rawsthorne's own material. This work gave the guitarist more scope for displaying the beauty of the instrument rather than the fireworks of which it is capable in his masterly hands.

Gramophone
April 1974

BMG (Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar)
November 1972 
Article: Julian Bream versus John Williams

January/March 1970, No. 107

Julian Bream was given high praise for his recital on February 22th at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. His guitar solos comprised of a suite of four pieces by Purcell, two Bach Preludes and music by Sor, Weiss, Debussy, Turina (Hommage a Tarrega), Frank Martin, etc. It was also the first performance of the Thomas Wilson piece Soliloquy. Appleby quoted Max Harrison from The Times, "Lasting about ten minutes, this is pleasingly acid and angular, dark-toned but with a noticeably wider range of gesture than the rest of Mr Bream's programme."

Guitar 
March 1974

Creative Guitar International
Performance by Pam Lipscomb
Fall 1973, Vol 1, No. 1, p. 26

Lipscomb, one of the writers of the magazine, mentions having seen Julian Bream in concert in Austin Texas. Bream played both the lute and the guitar. She asks one of the readers to compare the technique for the 2 instruments. (reply on Fall 1974, Vol. 2, No 1, p.14)

Magazine Articles: 1970 - 1974

An article about young muscicians and the moment, after a lot of hard work , that they realize that they can really play the intrument. Julian Bream was given as an example of such a moment after he played his first recital.  Such a revelation came to Julian Bream, who, after his successful first recital, at the age of 13 in Cheltenham Art Gallery, said "I didn't know I could play like that!" . Several young performers had such a moment at the June meeting for the Cheltenham Classic Guitar Circle.

Ibid, Julian Bream Recital, Aldeburgh Festival, 1970, p. 9

Julian Bream gave a recital on June 9th at the Maltings at Snape in Suffolk, the location for the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival. His guitar solos comprised of Berkeley's Sonatina, the first performance of Fricker's Paseo, two Bach preludes, , Schubert's Menuetto from the Sonata in G Major, Gerhard's Fantasia, de Falla's Homenaje and Miller's Dance.  He played a Villa-Lobos' etude for an encore. The author mentioned that while Bream was reading the printed score on the stand for the first performance of the Paseo. his facility seemed quite unhampered, producing with ease the large range of "guitaristics" demanded by the composer: sombre chords; fast scalic passages; harmonics and a wide usage of the fingerboard and even a rather alarming "broken string" sound effect.

Ibid, Forthcoming Concerts, p. 13

Julian Bream at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Andre Previn on piano and Melos Ensemble.