I would rather be grotesquely over-rated that just a little over-rated.
Just a little "erect member" envy.
Reinhard's is so tiny.
Dale
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From: "sterling price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BAROQUE-LUTE" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:42 AM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Reinahard Goebel and the Lute
> Hey at least we are 'grotesquely overrated'. Thats
> nice to know.
> Sterling
>
> --- Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I agree with him on guitar use in Bach cantatas,
>> but the
>> rest.............................
>> RT
>>
>>
>> Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger: "If you take a look at the
>> Early Music Scene today.
>> What bothers you?"
>> Reinhard Goebel: "The tinkling and banging on the
>> lute!* That's the most
>> dreadful. These instruments are grotesquely
>> overrated. There is a poem by
>> Brocke about the virgins from Hamburg loving to go
>> to the opera because
>> there they could see giraffes. The giraffes are of
>> course the theorboes
>> towering like erect members over the orchestra pit.
>> This is what interests
>> people the most today, just as it did then. The most
>> unimportant
>> instruments! At the latest in 1720 the position of a
>> lute player in Venice
>> was not refilled but instead offered to a violin
>> player. And today we have
>> Bach-Cantatas with guitar. Ridiculous!"
>>
>> * "Das Lautengeklimper und -gebimmel"
>>
>>
>>
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