[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[Edward Chrysogonus Yong]

Must be a generation gap thing then…

I'm 35 and my first cd of lute music was the album of English Lute Duets played 
by Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette, acquired in 1991. That sound was a 
revelation to me, and I ended up acquiring a pre-loved 7-course Harwood lute on 
a holiday to London in 1994. Diana Poulton's tutor was the only instruction I 
had for years, apart from this email list. I suppose I could be considered 
self-radicalised, so to speak.

I have no classical guitar background, so I was not exposed to Julian Bream's 
playing until some years after listening to Lindberg, O'Dette, North et al, and 
recall being quite put off by Bream's tone. 

Edward Chrysogonus Yong
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[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[Lindberg, Richard]

The first half of the Bream concert with lute was one of the most beautiful 
things I had heard at that time. When he brought out the guitar for the second 
half, it was almost a letdown.

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On 12/08/13 6:04 PM, Lindberg, Richard wrote:
> Bream for me and others that followed - but he was the first.

Bream also did a lot of touring on both sides of the Atlantic in those days.  I 
can remember attending a concert in which he played guitar in one half and lute 
in the other.  He was the first to introduce the lute repertoire to a broader 
public, probably realizing that it was much better quality than much of the 
guitar repertoire.

Geoff

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[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[guitarandlute]

>Konrad Ragosnig 6 lp set for Archiv 

Yes, After Bream he did so much. I have that set on CD now. They are wonderful 
recordings for lute. 

and even more a double lp with Eugen Dombois playing Weiss and Bach and Michael 
Schaeffer playing French baroque. Absolutely beautiful. It was the 
l'Infidele sonata (the wonderful Musette) and the Tombeau pour M. de Logis 
that convinced me that I wanted to play the lute.



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[Francesco Tribioli]

Konrad Ragosnig 6 lp set for Archiv and even more a double lp with Eugen 
Dombois playing Weiss and Bach and Michael Schaeffer playing French baroque. 
Absolutely beautiful. It was the l'Infidele sonata (the wonderful Musette) 
and the Tombeau pour M. de Logis that convinced me that I wanted to play the 
lute.Francesco - Reply message -Da: 
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[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[Geoff Gaherty]

On 12/08/13 6:04 PM, Lindberg, Richard wrote:

Bream for me and others that followed - but he was the first.


Bream also did a lot of touring on both sides of the Atlantic in those 
days.  I can remember attending a concert in which he played guitar in 
one half and lute in the other.  He was the first to introduce the lute 
repertoire to a broader public, probably realizing that it was much 
better quality than much of the guitar repertoire.


Geoff

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[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[Lindberg, Richard]

Bream for me and others that followed - but he was the first.

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Julian Bream hands down



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[Allan Alexander]

Julian Bream hands down



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[Sean Smith]

I had heard some of the Bream records throughout the early 70's and  
they impressed me but didn't make it look at all attainable. If I  
might be so bold, too much flash --which, of course, sold records and  
filled large halls-- but didn't seem to suit the instrument.


What sealed the deal for me was seeing a lute played at the local  
college (St John's College, Great Hall, built in late 17th century,  
Annapolis) by the Baltimore's Roger Harmon in '76. It finally looked,  
sounded and felt right. He, as a player, tutor and musicologist,  
created a lute world that convinced me that the music and instrument  
was real and worth studying.


Sean

On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:

Bream's "Dances of Dowland" worked for me.  And introduced me to JD as
well!

Leonard Williams

On 8/12/13 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

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Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - astronomy analogy?

On 12/08/13 2:46 AM, William Samson wrote:
   Sadly, I suspect that 'sidewalk lutenists' wouldn't attract the  
same
   queues as sidewalk astronomers.  Even I, as a lutenist, have a  
much

   clearer recollection of my first view of Saturn's rings through a
   telescope than I have of first hearing a lute.


As a matter of fact, I once saw this "sidewalk lutenist" in a piazza  
in

Venice:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53488562/lutenist%20in 
%20Venice.jpg


He was drawing quite a crowd, in fact.  This was on a tour of Italy
following the March 31 2006 solar eclipse in Jalu, Libya.  A friend  
saw

him
a couple of months ago there, and he's now selling CDs, just as  
someone

here
suggested.

I can't remember when I first _heard_ a lute, probably when I bought a
Julian Bream LP of lute music, but I have a vivid memory of first
_seeing_ a
lute (actually a lute guitar), in a Montreal music store window at  
the age
of 17 or 18.  It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to own  
and play

one, though it was 20 years later that I achieved that.

Geoff

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Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
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[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - Poll

[Leonard Williams]

Bream's "Dances of Dowland" worked for me.  And introduced me to JD as
well!

Leonard Williams

On 8/12/13 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
>
>-Original Message-
>From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
>Behalf
>Of Geoff Gaherty
>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:32 AM
>To: lute
>Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - astronomy analogy?
>
>On 12/08/13 2:46 AM, William Samson wrote:
>> Sadly, I suspect that 'sidewalk lutenists' wouldn't attract the same
>> queues as sidewalk astronomers.  Even I, as a lutenist, have a much
>> clearer recollection of my first view of Saturn's rings through a
>> telescope than I have of first hearing a lute.
>
>As a matter of fact, I once saw this "sidewalk lutenist" in a piazza in
>Venice:
>
>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53488562/lutenist%20in%20Venice.jpg
>
>He was drawing quite a crowd, in fact.  This was on a tour of Italy
>following the March 31 2006 solar eclipse in Jalu, Libya.  A friend saw
>him
>a couple of months ago there, and he's now selling CDs, just as someone
>here
>suggested.
>
>I can't remember when I first _heard_ a lute, probably when I bought a
>Julian Bream LP of lute music, but I have a vivid memory of first
>_seeing_ a
>lute (actually a lute guitar), in a Montreal music store window at the age
>of 17 or 18.  It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to own and play
>one, though it was 20 years later that I achieved that.
>
>Geoff
>
>--
>Geoff Gaherty
>Foxmead Observatory
>Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
>http://www.gaherty.ca
>http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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>
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