Domenico Bianchini was by profession a moaicist. Worked in Pisa and at St. Mark's in Venice. two ofthe ricercars in his book are intabulations of organ ricercars by julio da modena, who was first organist at st. mark's at the same time. If Binachini took his lute up on the scaffolding, perhaps that was the first instances of chori spezzati, with Bianchini providing a heavenly echo when Julio played down below.
Piston started as a draftsman. He did all the line drawings for his orchestragtion book, for example. He is sometimes credited with designing the mechanism that opened the doors of Boston trolley cars. But that is not true. He made the drawings for the engineer who had designed the mechanism. Later he did oil painting (not very good ones). You can see samples in the Piston Room at the Boston Public Library. The room is a re-creation of his study. Leaning up zgainst his desk is the beat-up old brief case he always carried. ==ajn ======================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 1:31 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: OT: list of visual artists also active as professional or competent amateur musicians/composers >> --- Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> That's not quite the level or the order needed. >> >> snob ... > The quest is for ARTISTS who were also practicing > musicians, not the other > way around. > >> >> there's also: >> >> - brian eno >> - brian ferry >> - ray davies > URLs? > >> .. in fact, practically every 60's rn'rer graduated >> from art school. >> >> - david bowie - he is (was?) mr. money for a british >> magazine called "modern painters." >> >> i think you deserve a seat at the top table too. > Not to mention you... > RT > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB > Transfer > 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much > more. > Signup at www.doteasy.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
