Monica's statement was originally on the Vihuela list... BTW, Ray is wrong - we (well, some of us, not me, and probably not you) do kill those whose beliefs we disagree with. I also doubt whether medieval man smelt worse than one of my students...and I haven't yet met a soprano who didn't think she was the centre of the universe!
Rob 2008/4/24 Nancy Carlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If anyone here who is not a LSA member would like a copy of the > Quarterly with that interview in it, email me with a street address > and I will mail it out to you. > Nancy Carlin > > > > Monica says: > I have just been reading Ed Durbrow's interview with Ray Nurse in LSA > quarterly and I particularly liked the bit where he say > > "Their performance situation was different (from ours) they ate > different food and smelled worse than we do, they burnt heretics and > believed that the earth was the centre of the universe!" (and a lot > of other things that seem totally illogical to us today judging by > the programmes on the "Medieval Mind" currently showing on BBC4 over here. > > Their world was certainly different from ours and they had fewer > choices than we have. > > > Nancy Carlin Associates > P.O. Box 6499 > Concord, CA 94524 USA > phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 > web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com > Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA > web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org<http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/> > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
