My Minkoff facsimile of Spinacino says that the original unique copy held in
Berlin before the second world war has disappeared, and that the facsimile
was made from photographs. But I seem to remember reading somewhere that
the original had been found again. Is this true?
--
Peter Martin
Yes, the photostats made for Genèvieve Thibault, are now
in the Bibliothèque nationale. The unique Berlin copy of
Spinacino, long thought destroyed, was acknowledged by
Polish authorities to be in Cracow only about 15 years
ago.
In Brown's bibliography* ALL of the prints marked
D:Bds (L) [for
Thank you Arthur. What an extraordinary story, and what a happy ending.
Howard Mayer Brown's book certainly lives on my desk. A good quality
reprint is available on demand from iuniverse.com for the very reasonable
price of $32.95. 560 jam-packed pages.
pc for all the right reasons, rest assured ... but
gracing the inside of my locker would be a photo of
lucie skeaping:
http://www.lucieskeaping.co.uk/
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
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Oh my
Relatedly, I remember a pair of Skeapings (Adam and ? ) playing on a record
of Dolly and Shirley Collins with David Munrow, Christopher Hogwood and other
revered EM folks.
Would she be a relative?
Sean
bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pc for all the
Please forgive our commercialism but we have a little news relevant to
Spinacino. We thought lute listers might be interested that our new CD, La
Rota Fortuna, in honor of the 500th anniversary of Spinacino's publication,
is now available. Details can be found at the following link:
bo' ... she and catherine bott take turns hosting a
wonderful early music program on the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/lucie_skeaping.shtml
- bill
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
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