On 12/08/13 9:12 AM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote:
I'll bet some large fraction (at least in the U.S.) of lute players, professional or avocational, got turned on by the 1960's Julian Bream album "An Evening of Elizabethan Music." Even though he was playing a heavily-constructed, inauthentic "LSO" (Lute-Shaped Object) the artistry and the musical content were there. We should take some sort of poll. I got the LP in 1966, and my first student lute in 1980, so I only waited 14 years....
Yes, that's the album, and the piece which particularly caught my fancy was Kemp's Jig...never thought I'd be able to play it myself. Tucked inside the jacket I find an article in a magazine about an Ottawa early music group with Tom Kines playing a similar battleship lute.
Geoff -- Geoff Gaherty Foxmead Observatory Coldwater, Ontario, Canada http://www.gaherty.ca http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
