I spotted a theorbo in the very strange new Franco-American melodrama called "le divorce" that played yesterday on HBO - The French characters were all of course spinet-less in the movie... it was far from an excelloent flick, with too much violance and a plot that tried to pull to many strings at the same time to be credible, but the idiophones were ok - Alain
At 04:45 PM 8/30/2004, Vance Wood wrote: >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! > > > >
