At 01:05 PM 8/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Details pertaining to the lives of both Madame Pratten and Ernest Shand >appear in Stewart Button's 1984 dissertation "The Guitar in England >1800-1924" >(University of Surrey) published by Garland in 1989. > >Shand was the pen name of Ernest William Watson, born in Hull in 1868. He >studied guitar with Madame Patten from roughly 1888 until her death in 1895. >Unfortunately, Button says nothing about Shand's stage career other >than to say he >was "an immediate success, and was invited to appear at all the leading >London theatres."
That's true, but in his preface to my edition of the Shand Concerto (1999, ten years after the dissertation) Button goes into more details about Shand's theatrical career. He also published some articles on the subject. BTW, the portrait of Shand which appears on the cover of my edition, was supplied by Button. >The Shand concerto was played by a very young Julian Bream as early as 1947. But this must have been the piano + guitar version, the only one that survived. Very few copies of it are known to exist. My edition was based on the copy in the VOB collection in Northridge. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/matanya/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
