Is it just me, or do there seem to be fewer small broken consorts around these days. Back in the 60s and 70s we had the Julian Bream Consort, The Early Music Consort of London, the Consort of Musicke, London Pro Musica, The Ely Consort, the Broadside Band, the City Waites, the Extempore String Ensemble. I am finding it hard to think of anything equivalent around today, certainly in the UK. I used to travel a long way to attend their gigs and was never disappointed - Lots of fresh music performed in ways I hadn't heard before. Always very entertaining and full of variety and played to packed houses. Have they had their day?
Gigs today always seem to be so serious and earnest and with much less variety to hold the attention of the Great Unwashed (ie non-lutenists). Bill From: Miles Dempster <miles.demps...@gmail.com> To: Lutelist List <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013, 17:00 Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness Forty years ago the continuo section of an early music performance hardly ever featured a finger-plucked instrument. The theorbo and archlute have since then become 'standard', providing bread and butter work for competent continuo players. Miles On 2013-08-12, at 10:45 AM, William Samson wrote: > Nowadays, of course, there are very many more great quality lutenists > than there were forty years ago, but there's not nearly enough work to > go round to keep them all busy as concert performers. Probably their > best hope of earning a crust is through teaching - either in academia > or with private students - and grabbing a performing opportunity when > it presents itself. -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
