suggestions of harp-related places to
visit while (in rome)
other than a plethora of irish pubs, i can't think of a thing.
Dear All,
Sorry to bother you with these ramblings, but they do relate to lute music, really...
I just got a catalogue from a company which sells reproductions of, and items inspired
by, household and personal items of the past - jewellery, vases, dressing gowns,
garden ornaments etc.
Duo LiveOak (Nancy Knowles, soprano, poet, and Frank Wallace, guitar, lute,
baritone, composer) will be performing in Princeton, NJ on March 14th and NYC
on March 15th their program Woman of the Water which features new works for
guitar, lute and voices by Frank Wallace (from their new CD of the
Ski instruction in the US some years ago was simpler. Bend ze knees, ten
dollars please.
So why do we allow ourselves to be beguiled by ideas of a golden
past?
I don't. I just like the music.
well, many lutenist amateurs of my wider acquaintance do. Sporting
tablatures they cannot actually play from, owning lutes they prefer to
look at instead of sounding them, arguing about
there are many ways people are attracted by the lute.
And it's hard to tell what level one should play. As I still studied the
lute my teacher told me you should play more difficult pieces - some
weeks later a lute playing professional told me the easier the better
(actually today I think the
So why do we allow ourselves to be beguiled by ideas of a golden past?
I don't. I just like the music.
I wish this was more typical..
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
If I may add my penny's worth. As someone from the other (Boulez, etc.) end
of the spectrum, I have enjoyed learning the lute and its music not because
it's old, because of a golden past, or anything like that, but because of my
attitude towards music. To me music is the aesthetically pleasing
As a professional conservator of paintings(and also an enthusiastic follower of the
lute!) I suppose I should address this thread topic. Paintings, of course, are much
more to the beholder than mere physical objects. From past ages, even from our own
age, they carry a artistic vision: an
I play the Lute because I love the music. I have, since a boy, been
fascinated by polyphonic music, first with Bach and then with John Dowland.
Then I was hooked. I played Lute music on the Guitar for a while before I
even heard it played on the Lute. Once that happened I was doomed to be a
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