Hi Dan, Joseph Iadone was my first exposure to the lute. He headed an early music workshop that I attended for several years in Vermont (early 70's). Lucy Cross taught there also. And Richard Taruskin, who led us through the early chapters of Hindemith's Elementary Training for Musicians. I never heard any lute solos there, just amazing ensemble music, and lute songs, of course. (Russell Oberlin was there the first year I attended). Joe was a truly unique player; no one played - or plays - like him. I actually first heard about him through my brother, who was studying bass with him at the Hartt School of Music. He did play with the New York Pro Musica, founded by Noah Greenberg. I have some of their recordings with Joe, or Christopher Williams (one of his students) playing. He also made some wonderful recordings with the Renaissance Quartet. One of the recordings I have on CD is one he did largely himself at home, recording all the parts to duos, trios and quartets. The story as I've heard it is that Hindemith asked Joe to play the lute in his collegium at Yale, so he had to teach himself how to play it. I think some of the information about technique he got from the introduction to Varietie of Lute Lessons. Thumb over (or out) but without nails and thumb-index for single lines.
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