Re: Lute on Open Air Festival 2

[Roman Turovsky]

> The mistake is to equate HIP with being boring. Both HIP and non-HIP
> are equally capable of being boring or not boring. For example, if I
> were to imitate exactly your gleeful murdering of "tempus est
> iocundum" complete with American accent and accompaniment
> of Bolivian charango, it could be very dull. On the other hand, it
> could be highly entertaining.
The question is whether it could also be edifyingly beautiful (which is not
necessarily entertaining, often disturbing, and typically not dull).
If Bill could pull off something of the sort on his charango, then he might
actually  justify his entire approach, but as an abstract idea it just don't
work, if you acquire my drift....
RT