Dear Arthur,
You might have added, by way of curiosity, that Shand was much more famous in
his day as a Music Hall comedian; I believe Bone inherited much of his
collection and he writes that Shand never used the guitar in his stage
act
rgds
Martyn
Arthur Ness [EMAIL
Looks like they will have to have a musician in every cinema,
restaurant, shopping-mall and elevator!
If playing recordings also includes radio-broadcast music, then every
building site must have musicians!
Doesn't the KGB have enough on their plate?
Ron (UK)
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Any relation to Jimmy Shand? Scottish band-leader...
Ron UK
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From: Martyn Hodgson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 August 2005 08:59
To: Arthur Ness; Lute Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE]Madame Robert Sidney Pratten, Victorian guitar
virtuosa
Dear Arthur,
You might
Dear Martyn,
Thanks for that additional bit of information. I am definitely going to get
Dr. Yates's edition from Mel Bay and find out what his music is like. There
seems to be quite a bit of sheet music by other composers and lyricists, some
with his picture on the cover, advertising that
Looks like they will have to have a musician in every cinema,
restaurant, shopping-mall and elevator!
If playing recordings also includes radio-broadcast music, then every
building site must have musicians!
Doesn't the KGB have enough on their plate?
You left out showers (waterproof CD
Details pertaining to the lives of both Madame Pratten and Ernest Shand
appear in Stewart Button's 1984 dissertation The Guitar in England 1800-1924
(University of Surrey) published by Garland in 1989.
Shand was the pen name of Ernest William Watson, born in Hull in 1868. He
studied guitar
Dear Arthur,
I'm most fortunate in having a signed copy of Bone's excellent work (not, alas,
addressed to me - I'm not that old!). He gives Shand's essential details as
born Hull (England) Jan 31 1868, died Nov 24 1924 Birmingham(NB the original
Brummegen). I'm quite fond of his stuff which
At 01:39 PM 8/25/2005, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Get Bone's book - it is eminently readable and, I believe, was republished
in comparatively recent times - of course, it's not infallible...
Indeed. It was first published in 1914, revised in (I believe) the 1950s,
and reprinted in (I
Arthur Ness
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:56:03 -0700
I didn't realize that in addition to being a music hall tenor he was
a comedian
as well. He must have been tremendously popular. It is Zuth in his Handbuch
that says that Shand was an American. I wonder where he got that notion.
Same place he got the
Bone explains:
'
Shand was known to the British public as a variety artist - a comedian - who
for many years headed the bills with the stars of variety ['Burlesque' I
suppose in the US - my comment], Lottie Collins, Gus Elen and Vesta Telley, at
the most popular music halls,'
Get Bone's book
At 01:55 PM 8/25/2005, Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed. It was first published in 1914,
Actually, the majority of the major articles in Bone were first
published in the US in Cadenza magazine from 1902 to 1906. I have
acquired a small run of Cadenza a couple of years ago,
In a message dated 8/25/05 10:57:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He also omits some info that I think is rather
important (e.g., he makes no mention of Justin Holland being black; as the
entry reads, Holland comes off as a minor figure of potential interest to
guitar buffs, but to have
Dear Peter,
Thank you very much for this information. I am embarrassed that it
was Nottingham where Shand was attacked. I live in Nottingham, aware
that the city now has one of the worst reputations for violence in
the whole of Great Britain.
One of the two books I have of guitar music by Shand
Matanya,
This strikes me as an extremely naive attitude. Documental evidence has
lead many people to the wrong conclusions, as documented by the
thousands (millions, actually) of pseudo-scholarly papers churned out by
both private and public research facilities. I'd rather read liner notes
by
At 04:01 PM 8/25/2005, Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matanya,
This strikes me as an extremely naive attitude. Documental evidence
has lead many people to the wrong conclusions, as documented by the
thousands (millions, actually) of pseudo-scholarly papers churned
out by both private and
Matanya Ophee wrote:
At 01:55 PM 8/25/2005, Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I'm in the day-job office and
away from appropriate references). Unfortunately, it's getting much harder
to locate and, once located, copies are asking way more than they should,
often multiple
I think it would be a mistake to cite what are additions and corrections to
Zuth's work as a demonstration that his work is poor. (Some of that is really
obscure information.) For his time, his Handbuch is quite thorough. And Matanya
knows about the Bergier, Ungay, entry because I told him
This is hillarious - I work in the field of library science, and the
fact that I know personally quite a few special collections catalogers
who - to stay polite - are quite full of themselves, makes the anecdote
extremely juicy. Incidentally, library science is the only science
in the U.S.
At 05:33 PM 8/25/2005, Arthur Ness wrote: wrote:
I think it would be a mistake to cite what are additions and
corrections to Zuth's work as a demonstration that his work is
poor. (Some of that is really obscure information.) For his time,
his Handbuch is quite thorough.
No argument. But it
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