Guitarist David Rogers brings his pluck to Las Cruces

When he was in high school. David Rogers alternated each week between classical guitar and jazz guitar lessons, a training that well-prepared him for his multi-faceted career as performer, composer and ensemble guitarist. “Musicians’ Survival 101 -- be versatile,” he told Intermezzo Host Leora Zeitlin in this interview that ranges from the improvisational demands of baroque and renaissance music, to the arrangements he has made of songs by Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones.

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Guitarist and composer David Rogers