Probably not....
One could market Mark Wheeler to them SCA, but I think his own
aspirations are higher than that,
his appropriate style notwithstanding.
RT
On 8/8/2013 10:28 PM, Sean Smith wrote:
Does it even rise to Quixotic?
On Aug 8, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Marketing is not necessarily good for culture. Especially marketing to
the lowest possible
denominator.
Culture is supposed to raise the listener/spectator to its level, not
to descend to his.
Marketing Fuenllana to SCA is hopeless, fulile, and amounts to the
proverbial pearls before swine.
RT
On 8/8/2013 9:57 PM, t...@heartistrymusic.com wrote:
Regarding "Society for Creative Anacronism" (SCA):
I see, and resonate with, your sentiments here.
BUT -
It's MARKETING!
AND - it's raising awareness amongst the "less educated",
but INTERESTED miniscule fraction of the public who
COULD be attracted to attend YOUR concerts.
OK - I'll agree that a lot of folks who get into SCA and go
to "Renaissance Festivals" have a very non-HIP viewpoint
on what it's all about. For them it's basically play-acting,
in the same way as those who attend Civil War Re-enactments,
or Rendezvous Re-enactments. It creates for them "warm-fuzzy"
feelings and an escape from every day hum-drum.
BUT - I think these are people whose hearts are in the right place,
and who could be enticed to concerts, and who could be willing
open books to learn what life and music REALLY was like.
And they spend money like fiends!
These are people who would buy Sting's "Songs From The Labyrinth".
And don't diss the guy - he introduced this music to a HUGE
cross-section of listeners who otherwise would never have given it
the time of day. Thank him, and Edin for helping draw attention to
the music you play.
Just because a person has a warped view of reality, If they had
ultimate respect for what you do, would you not want to see them
as an audience member at your next concert?
BTW - don't ALL of us have slightly warped views of reality?
(Except for me, of course ... )
Tom
My sentiment exactly.
RT
On 8/8/2013 6:12 PM, Braig, Eugene wrote:
. . . Many (certainly not all) somehow believing that assuming a bad
cockney accent; whacking each other with wooden weapons while
feigning the inability to use struck limbs; and listening to modern
Irish, Scottish, or English folk songs strummed by steel-strung
acoustic instruments somehow relates to
late-medieval/early-renaissance life. If that's your thing, go for
it. Myself, I kinda prefer music.
-----Original Message-----
From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu]
On Behalf Of r.turov...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013
5:37 PM To: Stephen Fryer Cc: t...@heartistrymusic.com; Nancy Carlin;
erne...@aquila.mus.br; R. Mattes; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject:
[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness
For those who don't speak American, and don't know American mores:
SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism, and it has nothing to
do with NYSCA, which is the New York State Council on the Arts. The
latter is a venerable institution that funds arts here, and the
former is group of uncultured boors in silly costumes who managed to
completely destroy the NY Medieval Festival at Cloisters. RT
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