[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-27 Thread demery
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006, David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not to change the subject too drastically, but I'd be curious to know how others on the list became interested in lute playing. Any particular influences? Richard Dyer-Bennet was an early influence, his lute-style play on

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-27 Thread demery
CPU wonders if there are any brits who can kick the tassel (ie, dance the gaillard athletically). I suspect in a cinematic context this would require dance stunt doubles :-). -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-26 Thread KennethBeLute
I recall from a conversation with Hogwood many years ago that he told me that when Munrow was working with the producers of The Six Wives of Henry VIII and told to come up with appropriate soundtrack music, he of course turned to the consort books of pieces attributed to Henry VIII himself,

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-25 Thread Donatella Galletti
- Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:42 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. I checked the Internet Movie Database and didn't find anything about But then Walsingham et al

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2006-04-25 Thread bill kilpatrick
not only was there the scots/english conflict but the catholic (rome)/protestant divide to contend with as well. mary was a dragon - she had to go. when her head hit the basket, mary's renowned red hair turned out to be a wig. i know elizabeth's mother and father were lute players but was she?

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-25 Thread Greet Schamp
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: bill kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 25 april 2006 1:23 Aan: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu CC: Caroline Usher Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. there was the most amazing interview with shekhar kapur - director of elizabeth I - on bbc

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-25 Thread JCetra
I'm not fully convinced that Elizabeth really knew what she was doing. For example, she castigated the heads of the English fleet for not boarding the Spanish Armada and engaging them hand-to-hand -- the only thing that could have saved the Spaniards and a likely route to disaster for the

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
QE2 seems to be under a lot of duress, doesn't she? RT - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:50 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. I'm not fully

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2006-04-25 Thread Caroline Usher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not fully convinced that Elizabeth really knew what she was doing. [GASP!] You traitorous . . . ;-) I did like it very much when she said, My dogs wear my collars! (after being insulted by Essex). I'll have to remember that one. For example, she castigated

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-25 Thread Alain
think must have been a more prominent instrument at that time. Greet Schamp Belgium -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: bill kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 25 april 2006 1:23 Aan: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu CC: Caroline Usher Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

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2006-04-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donatella Galletti [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. At 05:37 AM 4/25/2006

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-25 Thread Denys Stephens
Dear All, I too watched the Helen Mirren / Jeremy Irons rendition of the latter years of Elizabeth's reign (entitled 'Elizabeth 1' ) when it was screened in the UK last year and found much to enjoy in it, although it's always a disappointment that in present day productions it is considered

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-25 Thread Phalese
Hi, I purchased the Helen Mirren DVD last week in London at Virgin megastore. I then met Peter Forrester and got something much more interesting - a 4course diatonic cittern. best wishes Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at

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2006-04-25 Thread Peter W Jones
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:27 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. - Original Message - From: Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donatella Galletti [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:07

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-25 Thread David Rastall
On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Denys Stephens wrote: ...It's a piece of history in it's own right too, as alongside a similar series on 'The six wives of Henry VIII' it brought early music into almost every living room across the UK and helped to inspire a widespread popularity for early

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I

2006-04-25 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'd be curious to know how others on the list became interested in lute playing. Any particular influences? i heard an oud recording on the bbc world service and i was gone. - bill re: elizabeth - bette davis is queen of them all.

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-24 Thread Howard Posner
I checked the Internet Movie Database and didn't find anything about the music, except that Rob Lane composed the original music, i.e. composed for the movie. Caroline Usher wrote: They showed a meeting between Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, which I don't think actually happened,

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-24 Thread bill kilpatrick
there was the most amazing interview with shekhar kapur - director of elizabeth I - on bbc world service the other day in which he says - amongst many highly astute and very interesting observations of a more modern nature - that elizabeth was a spin doctor supreme - founded the british empire as

[LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S.

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Dorsey
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 7:23 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: Caroline Usher Subject: [LUTE] Re: HBO Movie Elizabeth I, P.S. there was the most amazing interview with shekhar kapur - director of elizabeth I - on bbc world service the other day in which he says - amongst