[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Lutes and brains

2015-08-30 Thread adS
Now I remember. Isn't he the guy who played Dowland with the Karamazov brothers? Rainer On 29.08.2015 22:30, Ron Andrico wrote: Ouch. > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:57:48 -0700 > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: howardpos...@ca.rr.com > Subject: [LUTE] Re:

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Lutes and brains

2015-08-29 Thread Lute List
Tom Draughon Heartistry Music www.heartistry.com 714 9th Ave. W. Ashland, WI 54806 716-682-9362 On Aug 29, 2015, at 4:29 PM, howard posner wrote: > >> On Aug 29, 2015, at 1:16 PM, David van Ooijen >> wrote: >> >> James Joyce entertained the thought of playing the lute, of course, so >>

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Lutes and brains

2015-08-29 Thread howard posner
> On Aug 29, 2015, at 1:16 PM, David van Ooijen > wrote: > > James Joyce entertained the thought of playing the lute, of course, so > he should, it was the fashion of the time to entertain this thought, > but did not play the lute. And apparently didn’t play guitar terribly well either.

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Lutes and brains

2015-08-29 Thread howard posner
> > On Aug 29, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Rainer wrote: > > I have no idea who Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is. Oddly enough, Sting said something similar. His 1985 documentary “Bring on the Night” has footage of a press conference in which some British press person prefaces a question by addressin

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Lutes and brains

2015-08-29 Thread Rainer
I have no idea who Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is. However: Probably almost no lute players nor mathematicians know that the great mathematician Serge Lang was a lute player and was a friend of Julian Bream. Unfortunately his Books (about mathematics) are quite difficult to read :( Rainer a