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with a pioneering professional classical guitar trio, the freshly formed Trio RaĂşl Borges. In the following decades Lauro's compositions were published, recorded and performed throughout the world, and his contributions to his nation's musical life were recognized and acknowledged. Lauro was appointed professor of guitar at several distinguished schools including the
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imprisoned Lauro for his principled belief in democracy. Lauro later shrugged off the experience, telling his friends that prison was a normal part of life for the
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of the guitar". Another recording worth mentioning, "A Tribute to
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in which two measures of 3/4 become a single measure of 3/2), such music was precisely the sort of folkloric raw material which
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