Let me add my voice to the growing chorus of people saying "Thank you, Anton." I am part of a small newbie Lute trio (known in my household as the Madison-Area Lute Support Group.) Anton's great arrangements have kept us playing together regularly, which in a town with an annual early music festival but no lute teachers means a lot.
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies And Faculty in Residence Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery University of Wisconsin-Madison Sent from my iPad On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Rockford Mjos <rm...@comcast.net> wrote: > I am also very appreciative of Anton's efforts and generosity! (Thank you, > Anton!) > > I like that Anton notifies this list of recent uploads and changes. It helps > to keep me up-to-date with Anton's postings (no small task!). This list > doesn't seem, to me, overburdened by this sort of notice. > > I am happy with his move to the IMSLP. Anton did mention the one day delay > when he first started posting there and occasionally reminders us in his > mailings to this group. In my experience a problem with the link most often > has been because I have been too anxious (meaning too early)! But perhaps > delaying the notice to this email list by one day might be considered. > > There are other possibilities for posting lute scores -- such as the Lute (or > Early Guitar & Vihuela!) Ning site, but I find it less than ideal for the > type and quantity of offerings by Anton. > > Most lutenists may well be primarily solo players, but my life and > music-making would be substantially poorer (literally and figuratively) > without making music with other people--and that includes other lutenists. > > We do not have any great wealth of ensemble music, especially for 3 or 4 > lutes. So I am happy about every new piece I find. Having a wider variety of > lute ensemble music creates more options when trying to program to certain > criteria, also. > > A group of us lutenists in Minnesota are planning on including some of > Anton's arrangements in a program for the Minnesota Guitar Society in January > 2013. We just have to figure out which! > > Thank you for your continued efforts, Anton! > > -- R > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
