Dear David, What wonderful news. Have you decided what works you are going to play? Be sure to let us know when the recital will take place. That must be a magnificent place to play. I have never heard about any lute music there. But the library is filled with manuscripts of music sent from Vienna in the time of Mozart and Haydn. There is a dissertation on music at Me;lk by Robert N. Freeman, now professor of musicology at the University of California.
It is from him that I heard about the monks and minuets. He even had a photo of the circular window from which the music circulated down to the listeners. You might look for it. I recall a white plaster wall with a window about a meter in diameter. It's interesting how many pictures of performing orchestras will have the musuicians on a balcony above the listeners. I've never heard a concert that way. Now on the Sciurus, which is Latin for Eichhorn (Mr. Squirrel). Incidentally I followed Gernot's idea and found an Eichorn (one H) in the Boston telephone directory. AJN. FROM: LGS-Europe, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: LUTE NET, INTERNET:[email protected] "AJN (boston)", 71162,751 DATE: 2/26/05 4:34 AM Re: Re: Sacred music for baroque lute <<snip>> I'll be playing in Melk in May. There's nothing about hidden rooms or bleeding in my contract, I'd better check! David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
