Hi David and others Have a look at Izhar Elias playing Legnani on an original 19th century guitar, walking on the stage :-))
And my best wishes for 2009 to everyone too! Jelma van Amersfoort On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Slightly OT. > Yesterday I was playing baroque guitar in he opening choir of the > fifth cantata of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Changed many orchestra > members' idea of the piece in the process, btw: off-beat strumming and > golpe on the rests in the bass was not what they were used to. ;-) It > was a small band: four violins, viola, cello, double bass, two oboe, > bassoon, cembalo and just four singers. Everybody except the cello, > double bass and cembalo where standing up. I was standing up too. > Standing up I blended better, had better projection and better > visibility. While I was strumming away looking at the 500+ audience, I > couldn't help feeling like a pop guitar hero, and it was very hard not > to move like one. I'm not a pop guitar player at all, but the > association with strumming-chords-while-standing was very strong. > Just some observations. > > David - holidays for a full week! > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
