On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > Which empress???
You mean there's more than one? > Yesterday I taught 2 classes of 19-year olds at NYU, invited by a > poet-friend who teaches a History of Culture course which touches > on the > "mystification as a literary vehicle". Interesting. When I was in graduate school it was de-mystification. Still, that was a long time ago... > So I was asked to do a presentation > on Sautscheckerei, my humble self in the context of literary > mystification > from Descartes, Chatterton, Macpherson, Merimee, Musin-Pushkin and > other > fine individuals.... > Dan Swenberg (of the Rebel Baroque Orchestra et al.) helped out > with a dozen > and a half Sarmaticae et Ruthenicae on the Renaissance lute. I > played the > sautscheckerei myself in the second half- baroque lute settings of and > variations on Ukrainian songs, with some originals interspersed, nach > Haydnisches Manier, naturlich, as a musical equivalent of Merimee's > GUZLA. > The picaresque aspect of the event also was certainly useful. Very impressive! > But before > Sting came along we would drawn blank stares. These kids were > genuinely > interested. Because you play "that thing that Sting plays." Ho! Ho! Just kidding. Seriously, we're all "mystified" by Sting's success. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
