At 07:00 AM 8/8/2005, Roman Turovsky wrote: >One piece from that LP, A "canzona by Francesco da Milano" became a >veritable hit, and a number of poets have written texts to its melody, and >not only in Russian. One version became known and loved nationwide, and by >now has attained a status of a true folksong. Can you imagine a lute piece >known to and/or loved by 100,000,000 people???? This was lute's greatest >moment of glory ever.
Fascinating indeed. I would love to see/hear this canzona--any chance you could post it in some form? Caroline Caroline Usher Dowager Empress, Lute Society of America Please refer all queries to the current President, Dick Hoban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
