Roman, Pat is indeed a great pedagogue, but only available regularly to those in NYC. Word has it that he's been working on a method book for the past 30 years or so. No plans for release in the foreseeable future, (or ever?) I'm afraid.
Chris --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net> wrote: From: Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net> Subject: [LUTE] Re: help for 'improving' lute and vihuela players To: angevin...@att.net, "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 12:18 PM Have you ever heard of Pat O'Brien? RT From: <[1]angevin...@att.net> > The lute world has great performers. The lute world has great teachers > for those in the more advanced states of learning. What the lute world > lacks is a great pedagogue. Some one with the depth of teaching > experience and knowledge to put together the graded series of method > books that would enable lute learning to become available to many, > instead of the diehard dedicated few. > > But indeed, perhaps there is no market. And perhaps what market there > might be has grown to expect all their lute music on line and for free.... > > Suzanne To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://us.mc550.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=angevin...@att.net 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html