Dear G�ran On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, G.R. Crona wrote:
> why haven't we heard about this before? It sounds like a bloody good > story like a writer would use: A community of opium- or hemp-smoking > vocal composers, active in France in the 15th century, turning out > some amazing "avant-garde" music. They said in the radio program that I think I read the opium explanation in the liner notes of a double LP in the 70's or early 80's. Performes were - if memory serves - English, I guess of David Monroe's circles. And yeah: the music in that recording was really avant-garde! As I guess, was all the life in the court of the Pope of Avignon... Perhaps somebody remembers more? Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
