A few years ago, I met an elderly gentleman in his home, and he showed me the most amazing collection of old LP's imaginable. In it was an old LP of Suzanne Block playing lute. It was a very, very old LP.
ed At 01:13 PM 11/24/2004 -0800, Howard Posner wrote: >While I was searching for Suzanne Bloch info on the web just now, I came >across a peculiar reminiscence from Jeffrey Dane, a musician and writer >whose name is known to me, (if mostly from writings of people who disagree >with him) at > >http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/202/300/inditer/2001/06-04/dane/bloch/ernes >t.htm > >He says: > >"Ernest Bloch's daughter Suzanne was, like her father, born in Geneva, on >August 7, 1907." > >It must have been quite a day for both of them. Dane continues: > >"Her interest in the music of previous periods prompted her to learn to play >the instruments - lute, harpsichord and others - for which the earlier music >was written. She performed and lectured widely, and was for many years on >the faculty of the author's alma mater, The Juilliard School in New York, >where he met and spoke with her on several occasions. It was she who had >organized the ear-training department there during the tenure of William >Schuman as the School's president. Though approaching her sixth decade, her >vitality, enthusiasm, and still jet-black hair made her look and even sound >much more youthful. The natural charm and genuine personal sparkle she >exuded made her remarkably attractive to much younger male students, whose >emotions could be aroused as much by her smile as by her father's music." > >And finally, as if we needed to be told at this point: > >"The author acknowledges he was one of them." > >HP Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
