Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 7:00 pm

Manhattan Theatre Club Creative Center, Studio 2 (on the 8th Floor)
311 West 43rd St. between Eighth and Ninth Avenues (see map)
New York City

In September, we will be joined for a special presentation by flamenco and classical guitar master Dennis Koster.

While still in his teens, Dennis Koster began his career as a flamenco guitarist. Today's flamenco has become a jazz-influenced and infused art, but Mr. Koster carries on the tradition of concert-classical flamenco guitar first introduced to the music-loving public in Paris in 1927 by the great Don Ramón Montoya and brought to the world by his followers Niño Ricardo, Mario Escudero and Sabicas. Mr. Koster is one of the few guitarists ever to have learned this music directly from both Mario Escudero and the legendary Sabicas. He has celebrated this legacy in radio and concert performances throughout the United States, Japan, Spain and Latin America. A great virtuoso performer, Mr. Koster is widely regarded as this country's leading authority on flamenco guitar, being the author of the internationally best-selling three-volume flamenco method The Keys to Flamenco Guitar, now in a newly revised second edition released this year by Mel Bay Publications.

NYCCGS Meetings are free and open to all members and first-time guests.