Any body remember the Elizabeth R series that was broadcast around twenty years ago? I seem to remember a Lute in that one and some of the back ground music was supplied by Julian Bream if I am not mistaken.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:48 AM Subject: Re: lute siting (sighting?) > At 04:14 AM 8/30/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The only movie where I remember seeing an "early music" instrument that > >looked like the real thing and also sounded like it as well, was Polanski's > >"Pirates", from the early 1980's; I was impressed by that short scene of the > >heroine playing a baroque guitar. I wonder who the studio musician was? > > > Ah, that scene made the movie for me! > > > >There > >was also a French movie with a gamba player as the hero, "All the > >Mornings of > >the World"?, which had the music and instrument accurate, but the actor was > >obviously playing "air gamba", and not very well, at that. :) > > > That movie was about the relationship of Marais and St. Colombe. I enjoyed > it in spite of Depardieu's aping. Jordi Savall did much of the soundtrack. > > In _Ladyhawke_ there was an extra with a theorbo on his lap and the sound > of John Dowland's "Lachrimae" coming out (if I recall correctly). > > My favorite visual nod to lute probably was that in a short-lived medieval > TV drama. I think the series was called _Covington_Cross_ or similar; > whatever, the show was corny in the extreme. There was one episode where > the principals made a great deal of grumbling over the pending tedium of a > lute recital to be given by a visiting princess. When she finally took the > lute into her lap and began her clumsy aping (to gratuitous yawning from > the principal cast), the sound of a harp came out! > >
