So that's what it was....I'll give learning that a miss :-) He's still a poser though, even more so if that's what sting was brandishing. Ironically the album got to number 1 in the classical music charts over here. The Early Music Shop in Bradford where I bought my lute from told me that they had been inundated with people wanting to buy one as a 'Conversation Piece ' for dinner parties YUK. Remind me next time I have a dinner party to put my battered 33 year old Gibson SG on the dinner table and let 'em talk about that. Ha, Ha.
-----Original Message----- From: Roman Turovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2006 15:09 To: Narada; 'EUGENE BRAIG IV'; 'lutelist' Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting! > As for Stings album....errr how's about pretentious! I saw Sting on > British > TV launching it, Sting played a baroque lute, the other guy played a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archlute RT > renaissance lute, sting said that he was the student and the other guy the > master, if so why did sting have a baroque lute? I've had an 8 course for > 5 > weeks now and the transition from guitar to this is very challenging. I > reckon sting was just posing, lets hope it didn't get " Tantric" whilst he > was recording it :-) > > Sting is a poser though. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: EUGENE BRAIG IV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 November 2006 22:32 > To: lutelist > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruno Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:54 pm > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting! >> So on top of that, Sting cannot even ENUNCIATE in his own >> language..... >> as for the awakening the sleeping interest we can all gain for, I am >> confident the lute community, which includes me, does not need Sting >> to awake the sleeping interest.....I personally woke up in 1978, long >> before any pop artist even had heard of the lute..... and frankly I >> now have nightmares when I think of Sting singing Dowland... > > Man, I really don't understand this persistent vitriol. If you don't like > it, don't buy it. I won't, but I'm still overjoyed Sting felt enough love > for this music to record it. I'm certain a Police reunion album (or even > another _Dream_of_the_Blue_Turtles_!) would have been much more profitable > for him. Personally, I'm not fond of the way Rooley did many things, so > I'm > a cautious buyer of his recorded output too. > > Whether admitted or not, the lute is getting much more attention than it > has > in a while. Frankly, Sting has greater capacity to bring the attention of > many more individuals to the lute than does Yasunori Imamura, Federico > Marincola, or Paul Beier, e.g. What do I care? The lute gets lots more > attention and there is still plenty out there to satiate my personal > tastes > for lute playing. > > The claim that any living lutenist discovered lute long before any "pop > star" seems a little bold considering that the popular artists of ca. 1600 > largely were playing lutes. Of today's pop stars, even Jethro Tull and > Focus were using lutes on their commercial releases by 1972 and 1973 > respectively. No, you didn't need Sting to discover the lute for you, but > you still came to it through somebody else. I'm sincerely glad you came > to > it, and I don't necessarily care if I like the artist who introduced you > to > the sound or not. The bigger the pool of potential lutenists, the more > likely it is to produce players I consider to be of quality. Whoever > served > as their introduction to the instrument isn't necessarily relevant. > > Please, let's hear about something you actually like. > > Best, > Eugene > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >
