Flip Phone Artist Pauly Salvatori and Guitar Composer Tom Salvatori collaborate once again to create a Visual Art slide show of images from The Rosemary District
Jan 2, 2026
Nocturnal Nocturne - A Flip Phone Pic and Guitar Music Collaboration Visual Art Slide Show
Flip Phone Artist (and Cousin) Pauly Salvatori and Guitar Composer Tom Salvatori collaborate to create a Visual Art slide show that asks the question...Is Darkness is the Absence of Light, or, is Light the Absence of Darkness?
Jan 2, 2026
ARCHIVE DIVE #5 - Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim - Arranged for Nylon String Guitar by Tom Salvatori, 1974
So much fun! Another pleasant surprise - on the reel-to-reel that I recently found...a piece of instrumental music I recorded in 1974 - it's a solo Nylon String Guitar arrangement of 'Send in the Clowns,' a song written by Stephen…
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Jan 2, 2026
ARCHIVE DIVE #4 - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Prelude 3 in A minor - performed by Tom Salvatori, 1974
Another piece from the old reel-to-reel tape I recently found - it's a recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Prelude No. 3 in A minor. I studied this piece with Duane Tutaj, my guitar teacher from Elmhurst IL, who entered me into…
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Aug 24, 2023
ARCHIVE DIVE #3 - APOCALYPSE 1976 Our Prog Rock Demo Tape - found in 2022 and released as an LP by Guerssen Records!
RELEASED March 25, 2022 - Apocalypse music, after 46 years in a dusty old storage bin, FINALLY sees the light of day thanks to Steve Krakow (Music Writer/Historian aka Plastic Crimewave), Sara Gossett (Dreamscapes and Nostalgia Artist) and the…
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Aug 24, 2023
The Four Seasons of Suites Collection - Solo Nylon String Guitar
A collection of my original solo nylon string guitar suites, composed to evoke the nature and sentiment of each of the four seasons
1. Springtime Suite in E Minor (2013) - A season of April showers and May flowers...
- i…
Aug 24, 2023
ARCHIVE DIVE #2 - Home (Is Where I Want to Be) - The 1977 Single Release that Never Was :)
Home (Is Where I Want to Be) - Tom Salvatori...the 1977 single release that never was :)
Here's a fun video to post...in addition to the 1974 reel-to-reel tape found in that old box of sheet music, there was also…
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Aug 24, 2023
ARCHIVE DIVE #1 - Old reel-to-reel recordings from 1974!
Babylon: Traditional - Arranged for Nylon String Guitars by Tom Salvatori, 1974
Sooooo...here's quite a recent find! While going through an old box of sheet music I found a reel-to-reel tape of one of my first multi-track recording efforts...a traditional…
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Jul 6, 2023
RESPITE GUITAR IN NATURE SUITE - 28:00 SLIDE SHOW
July 6, 2023 - FINALLY! At long last we have finished the production of the slide show that was envisioned to accompany the RESPITE GUITAR IN NATURE SUITE. If you ever need a 30 minute escape from the rattle and…
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May 8, 2022
A Year in the Life - Sheet Music Book published by Les Productions d'Oz, CANADA
Solo Nylon String Guitar Compositions by Tom Salvatori
A Year in the Life is an album of all-original solo nylon string guitar compositions conceived to evoke the nature and sentiment of each appropriate month of the year. I compose in…
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Apr 23, 2022
THE WAY BACK STORY: I was awakened that night…startled to see that my classical guitar had become possessed by…ALICE COOPER!
Imagine my surprise. Just after paying homage to my favorite guitar heroes on my recently released “Parlour Favorites (2016)” album…and just as I was arriving at the pinnacle of peace and tranquility as a composer - I was…
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Dec 16, 2020
Liner Notes from 1997's Invoking the Veiled Reference Album
A Road Map Through the Veiled References:
1…….. The Time in Nick’s Bottle…..4.34
In this piece, a tip of the hat goes to Nick Drake’s Fruit Tree and Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle. More than likely, their influence is…
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Dec 16, 2020
Liner Notes from 1995's Under Cover of Darkness Album
It was August 10, 1994, and I spent the evening alone. With my family safely tucked away at Eagle River, I tinkered with a bottle of Amaretto Di Saronno and what has now become the core of this recording.
As…
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Dec 15, 2020
My Top Thirty Popular (Non-classical) Albums
In no particular order...
1. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale
3. Brian Vander Ark - Resurrection
4. REM - Automatic for the People
5. E - A Man called E
6. Eels…
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Dec 15, 2020
Did I or did I not play Carnegie Hall? That is the question
Guys in the studio sometimes disagree, or agree to disagree just to stir the pot...play a joke...start a rumor...whatever...just to get under each other’s skin once in a while. I suppose the same thing happens in the military, in the…
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Dec 15, 2020
Ahhh The Glory in Family Music Reviews
The best way to get a real kick to the stomach is to ask your family members to listen to your music and to please render an opinion. Remember, these are the people who have seen you in your underwear…suffered…
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Dec 14, 2020
The Purity and Beauty of Instrumental Music
I sometimes think that one of the best ways to ruin a piece of music is to take pen to paper and start writing lyrics. It occurs to me that adding lyrics can be fraught with difficulty; and oft-times reveals…
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Dec 14, 2020
Tom Salvatori – Guitar Composer A Lifetime in Music...an Autobiography
EARLY FAMILY LIFE
I was born on December 29, 1958, and I grew up in Famiglia Salvatori, a family of seven siblings from a western Chicago, Illinois suburb named Elmhurst. I ranked right in the middle among our seven brothers…
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Dec 14, 2020
Marketing my Work as a Composer - Ugh, I’d Rather be Fishing
Funny thing is, being a composer is a lot like being a fisherman. Please bear with me as I explain. To be a fisherman, one needs to enjoy the sport of fishing dearly in and of itself and without condition…
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