Viva Torroba!

Federico Moreno Torroba
Spanish-born composer
(3 March, 1891 - 12 September, 1982)
Classical guitarist Andrés Segovia was born on 21 February, 1893. Spanish composer Federico Torroba was two years younger. The latter was born on 3 March, 1891.

So then, on 3 March, we celebrate the two artists' birthdays together with Segovia playing a Torroba composition.

A quite piece goes nicely with your cup of herbal tea.

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Andrés Segovia, classical guitar (2002)
Romanza de los piños (Torroba)
The mood of this soft guitar music, pine trees notwithstanding, brings to mind a Spanish Renaissance song of a girl who awaits her beloved:

Si la noche se hace oscura
y tan corto es el camino,
cómo no venís, amigo?
La media noche es pasda
y él que me pena no viene,
mi desdicha lo detíene,
que nací tan desdichada.
Hazeme vivir penada,
y muéstraseme enemigo,
cómo no venís, amigo?

Although the night grows darker,
you have not far to come,
Love, why are you so long?

And still my love tarries
though midnight's past and gone,
My bad luck keeps him from me
the luck I've always known.

How much I suffer for it.
Everything goes wrong.
Love why are you so long?