> > As I said before, no jar of honey is complete without its blob of tar. > Love to all, > Marion Or a drowned fly. RT
______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > Dear lutenists, > > during the, let us say, "couple of years" we have had amongst us an > actor, a writer, who "knows everything", who is "able" to tell who > is good or bad player, who is good or bad composer, which music is > good, which is bad, how to play the baroque lute, why not to play > Kapsperger, why to worship as God a certain member of the Bach family, > etc. In one word, we have had here a real "Besserwisser" in the very > classical sense of the word. In a way, to have such a rarity here is a > priviledge! There really are not many persons in the modern world, who > really believe they "know the truth"... (Well (shudder!) there is even > one president of a big and powerful country in that category today!) > > Well, to come back to the List: This single person really has been able > to poison the List: nowadays you cannot write freely to your lute player > friends without formulating your words to the critics of the certain > "Besserwisser". I do admit that he has done some good work in making the > writers more aware of the critics. But what is medicin in small amounts, > is po?n in greater amounts! And we have had that poison already in > quite a great of amount! And more are we to have, without doubt! Sooner or > later... Actually I suppose: sooner _and_ later... > > All the best, nevertheless ;-) > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
