SHARON ISBIN 1970 9th GRADE LINOLEUM OWL PRINT CHAIRITY 90% GOES TO CHARITY Start Price USD 3,500.00 Current Price USD 3,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 25, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Minnetonka, Minnesota See more about 'SHARON ISBIN 1970 9th GRADE LINOLEUM OWL PRINT CHAIRITY' Description Description   ARTIST NAME: SHARON ISBIN TITLE NAME: ORIGINAL 1970 CENTRAL GRADE 9 OWL ART PIECE, SIGNED FORMAT: LINOLEUM PRINTCONDITION: MINT- SIGNED YEAR PRESSED: 12/16/1970 OTHER INFO~ SHUGA RECORDS IS PLEASED TO PRESENT A EXCLUSIVE CHARITY RUN ON SHARON ISBIN MEMORABILLA. SHARON HAS SIGNED THIS UNSEEN ORIGINAL 1970 9TH GRADE ART PRINT THAT WAS FOUND IN HER PARENTS HOUSE. WE WILL ONLY BE LISTING OTHER SHARON ISBIN CHARITY ITEMS ON EBAY SO DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE ONE OF KIND ITEMS.  90% OF THE ENDING SALE PRICE GOES TO CHARITY FEATURED BELOW. ADDED:THE PRICE WAS ENTERED IN WRONG, THANKS FOR THE EMAILS:)SHUGA RECORDS TEAM INVENTORY NUMBER: ISBIN~CHARITY~1970 OWL   The First of the Firsts: Rare Debut Albums by Guitarist Sharon Isbin Discovered at Her Childhood Home When it comes to firsts, Sharon Isbin has racked up more than a few. Juilliard’s first guitar instructor and founder of the school’s guitar department. First guitarist to record with the New York Philharmonic. First classical guitarist to win a Grammy in nearly 30 years, for her 2001 recording Dreams of a World. And, in collaboration with the late keyboardist Rosalyn Tureck, she prepared the first performance editions of the Bach Lute Suites for guitar. But there’s one of Isbin’s firsts that hasn’t, until now, been as high profile. As a young woman of 20, Isbin recorded her first album of Spanish and Latin guitar in a Twin Cities church. Now, thanks to her preservation-minded parents, a small cache of sealed editions of Sharon Isbin Classical Guitar (1978), and its follow-up Sharon Isbin Classical Guitar Volume II (1980), are available exclusively through Shuga Records. The limited edition, out-of-print albums, both recorded on the Sound Environments label and engineered by Russ Borud, have been stored at Isbin’s childhood home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, and capture the young musician as she advanced her mastery. The first includes classical guitar pieces by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, Spanish composer-pianist Isaac Albeniz, and arrangements by Andrés Segovia, Isbin’s onetime instructor, among others. “That was my first experience making a commercial recording,” Isbin recalls of the LP created while she was still a student at Yale. “The second one is significant because it documents the first phase in my working relationship with the great Bach pianist and scholar, Rosalyn Tureck. It was the prelude of things to come. I later ended up recording the complete Bach lute suites. This was my first foray into the Baroque performance practice intensive work I did with Tureck, who was my great mentor.” The albums also hint at the genre-crossing and prolific discography Isbin would later build: now the world’s leading classical guitarist, she has worked with artists including heavy metal guitarist Steve Vai, country fiddle player Mark O’Connor, the late Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida, contemporary composers John Corigliano and Lukas Foss and more than two dozen others, and, most recently, Howard Shore, who scored the Martin Scorsese film The Departed (Isbin played on five tracks of the CD soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning film). Looking back today -- having won multiple Grammys, recorded dozens of albums, and won prestigious prizes around the world (a copy of her CD American Landscapes was even taken into space and presented as a gift to Russian cosmonauts by American astronauts) – she has great fondness for these first recordings of her career. “It’s a real historic legacy that can’t be duplicated in any other medium,” she said. “It really is a one of a kind.”written by Paul Schmelzer for Shuga Records Inc: Place a Bid!