Rob MacKillop wrote: > Met the American conductor just before the rehearsal in Glasgow > started. He > said, 'I want you to use fingerpicks'. Excuse me? 'Fingerpicks. We > don't > need the guitar for an hour and a half, so try to find some'. > Er...OK...
Are you playing guitar? > Met the conductor again, who tells me that I must play as if I can't > play > very well! I've never had that instruction before. Part of me wants to > say, > 'Easy! I'm good at that', but part of me is thinking, 'Oh dear...'. Beckmesser is a comic character; also an annoying one. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
