In einer eMail vom 15.10.2006 01:47:12 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I don't expect you to like it, but don't push your cheesy wares as the > alternative. > RT Hi Roman, funny that you find my wares are so cheesy compared with Stings with it's electronic lute sound, new age bird calls etc. Amusing that you find our singer worse than Micro Man, Hannah has just returned from France where she recorded a Purcell CD with William Christie for Virgin Classics. But I suppose that does have the ethnic background that would interest you. We did have a Polish singer for a few weeks would that have been more pleasing to you ? As far as the drugs things goes have a listen to one of Dowland's drug texts that got cut from his 3rd book of songes at http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/pantagruel-elizium/ Track 7 "The Buzzeinge Bee's Complaynt" uses a couple of extra verses from the original poem that Dowland set. Strange that Poulton and Kelnberger didn't mention that Dowland only included the first 3 verses. But then you only tend to find out this sort of thing if you read even more than 30 books about Elizabethan music. So it's nothing for your friends, who didn't notice that Come again,contains alternate verses and not 6 verses to be sung together. Thats what happens when you don't use facsimiles...... Here is the last verse of "It was a time... "Tis only I must draine Aegiptian flowers, Having noe savour, bitter sap they have, & seeke out Rotten Tombes & dead mens bowers, And bite on nightshade growing by the grave, If this I cannot have, as hapless Bee, Witching Tobacco I will fly to thee" Probably too "gothic" for you and a good job that you were not around at one of those jacobean masques or Elizabethan entertainments because they wore costumes, . That would be such a shock for you..... I feel quite free to use this Sting debacle to push, peddle or promote our more serious approach to elizabethan music to the world, what do you intend to do against it ? Please give it all the negative publicity you can, as you know their is no such thing as bad publicity :) Keep up the bad work Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
