Hello, this past weekend I had the pleasure to be invited to Austria to play together with a viol player (who is actually a peace researcher) and a singer from japan who studies in Austria. I was a bit afraid because I didn't know about the quality of the singer. But she was/is marvelous, although the "Kunstlied" might suite her voice better than Dowland and Kindermann which we performed.
I first met them on friday evening and we spent the saturday to rehearse and I did some arranging of a japanese song (results can be listened to at http://www.tslaute.de/mp3/zawawa.mp3 which was the greatest success of theses recitals - we were asked to repeat this piece on both recitals). Sunday we were invited to play a small house concert. I was very much surprised about the kindness and hospitality of these austrian friends and wish to express my heartfelt "thank you" to them. It was a marvelous evening for both performers and listeners (attended by around 30 people). on monday we drove to Salzburg were a meeting of the Berghof Stiftung (a peace and conflict researching institute - Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management) took place. In the afternoon we provided some peace songs of the baroque to a lecture of Dieter Senghaas dealing with "peace as topic in music" (Friedensseufzer by Kindermann and again the japanese song) and played the rest of our program in the evening. His research will be published soon. Thanks to all I met there for your hospitality and friendship! Thomas P.S.: Performers were: Misao Asaka, Senai, Soprano Japan/Vienna, Austria Dr.Reiner Steinweg, Viola da Gamba Linz Thomas Schall, Laute Sulzbach I have also put Dowland's "Come Again" on my site (http://www.tslaute.de/mp3/come.mp3) Filesize each: approx 2 MB (6 minutes of music each, 56 kb quality) -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
