Re: Lute on Open Air Festival 2

[James A Stimson]

Dear All:
 I think the key to HIP study and performance is to get past the idea of
playing music of another time written by long-dead composers. The ideal, as
the late Barbara Thornton put it, is to take ownership of the music, to
make it ours. Thus, when I get up to play, I'm playing "my" Francesco, my
Dowland, my Weiss, not somebody else's music.
Yours,
Jim