Stewart wrote:
>One of the reasons I enjoy lute music is because it is music, pure
>and simple. It is unpretentious.
Yes. I spent last week in Indianapolis and stayed with my mother who recently moved
to a "retirement village." I played a small recital for some of her friends and
neighbors and was well received. However, after the recital we went over to the home
of a neighbor whose back trouble prevented her from walking the few steps to my
mother's. I played a few pieces for her. She had never heard a lute before, and
after the first piece she said, "There's something about the sound of it, it has the
same feeling as almost having tears in the eyes."
Caroline
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Caroline Usher
Ye hollye and ye ivye
And ye Christmas tree so faire
Are a mekill peyne to a poore villein
Who hath litel tyme to spare;
O ye scrubbynge of ye lecturne
And ye deckynge of ye tree
And ye blowynge of ye murie organ:
Must they alle be done by me?
Ye hollye beareth prickle
As sharp as any spike;
Ye may stick a briar in our gracious squire
Atte anie tyme ye like;
O ye lightynge of ye candles
And ye polysshynge ye brasse!
Yf this be ye Feudal Systeme,
Rolle on, ye myddel Classe!
-- Willoughbye Dogsbody
