New classical guitarist Gilda Taffet's CD, Downtown Diary, features fresh music for classical guitar - both solo and with flute, or vibraphone - with contemporary classical, new age and jazz influences. Gilda performs as a soloist, and with such diverse Northern Californian groups as the Avalon Swing Revue, the Stockton Symphony, Sacramento Ballet and Opera orchestras, the B Street Theater and Slavic music group Dai Go Zivo. The four-part "Downtown Diary" (tracks 2-5 on the CD) was featured in the Spring 2000 American Composers Forum Salon Series in San Francisco and with the Chamber Music Society in Sacramento in April, 2000. Overall, the listener is treated to subtly complex music with depth, beauty and substance.
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The record
| 1 | Raw Time Instrumental Guitar | 6:54 |
| 2 | Downtown Diary: Midday Madonna Instrumental Guitar | 6:20 |
| 3 | Downtown Diary: Bad Plaid Polka Instrumental Guitar | 3:23 |
| 4 | Downtown Diary: Hymn Instrumental Guitar | 6:41 |
| 5 | Downtown Diary: Finale Instrumental Guitar | 5:46 |
| 6 | Ballad Of The Lovesick Maiden Instrumental Guitar | 6:26 |
| 7 | Five Meditations: Premeditation Instrumental Guitar | 1:45 |
| 8 | Five Meditations: Mediation 1 Instrumental Guitar | 1:28 |
| 9 | Five Meditations: Meditation 2 Instrumental Guitar | 2:14 |
| 10 | Five Meditations: Meditation 3 Instrumental Guitar | 1:22 |
| 11 | Five Meditations: Postmeditation Instrumental Guitar | 1:51 |
| 12 | Compose Yourself Instrumental Guitar | 4:25 |
| 13 | Blue Instrumental Guitar | 4:16 |
| 14 | Raindance Instrumental Guitar | 4:52 |