Three day weekends are great. Sometimes the lute list really does turn into an afternoon down at the "Lute Player's Pub", except we each have to provide our own beverage. So I told my wife (The Soprano Who Must Be Obeyed" - apologies, & R.I.P., John Mortimer) that the guitarists-who-play-lute are arguing with the lutenists-who-play-guitar who is the most irrelevant of all and then a goddamn 3-string BALALAIKA Paganini walks into the bar and beats us all up.
Now if only my archlute had just one more course, I'd show him... yeah, I'd really show him.... Happy Martin Luther King Day before the inaug event to all, including of course my dear colleagues across the puddle. Dan >On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Mayes, Joseph wrote: > >> They wouldn't think of firing the lute professor? Oh yeah, there >> is no >> lute professor. > >It works both ways. I can think of a number of highly accomplished >and successful lutenists and musiclologists in the lute world with >academic positions as solid and secure as anyone's, at places where >the "guitar guy" would still be the first to go. > >> No chance to eliminate 20 or so versions of "Kemp's >> Jig." > >Touche! > >Davidr >dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
