Hi all, I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below!
Arto On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: > > Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but music > > isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't know > > the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer (which > > can read it much more accurately than you can). > Lute music is not exactly "green onions", you know..... > That's why even our virtuosi like to read as they play. > Not everyone thinks that memorization is such a wonderful thing. Svyatoslav > Richter once said that if he weren't forced to play from memory he wouldn't > be stuck with his limited [sic!] repertoire. He would have liked to play 5-6 > Haydn sonatas in concert, rather than 1, but sightreading just wasn't done > in the old country. > RT > == To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
