Reader post on classical guitarist Olen MacCutcheon
October 21, 2007
Just purchased the set. William Foden is mentioned. Did you ever encounter Olen MacCutcheon in Parkersburg W VA? Mac studied with Foden in Chicago one summer in the early 1900s. Foden came through Parkersburg as part of a vaudeville show. Mac was hooked on classical guitar after he heard Foden. Mac went to UC, degree in piano/violin. After hearing a NYC live broadcast of a chilean or argentine guitarist by name of Ogurayen (sp?) Mac jumped a freight train to NYC with his duffel and guitar. He found the guitarist and followed him around like a puppy dog until he condescended to teach him. Mac would go on to become a peer of segovia’s, met him in 28 (I think) and then blew segovia away in 1935 at sophocles papas’ studio in dc.
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