Probably, but isn't that the ephemeral nature of popular music?
Gary
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From: David Rastall
To: gary digman
Cc: lutelist
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Stung again
On Mar 30, 2007, at 6:41 AM, gary digman wrote:
My point is not that he is good, in your girlfriend's sense of the term,
but that he is popular, more popular than your girlfriend or I will ever be,
and he is using that popularity to introduce a "wider audience" to the lute
which is what so many on this list say they want.
It's certainly true that Sting has brought the lute to a wider audience, but
I wonder how much of that audience will even remember the lute a year from now.
On two occasions in the last two months I've heard Sting and his lute
described over the media as "Sting and his "f--king lute." Quite possibly the
whole Labyrinth thing is beginning to bore people...
Sting has created a short-lived sort of parallel universe in which a lute is
"that thing that Sting plays." IMO the lute world (or, as our Exhalted Empress
would put it: "the known lute world" ;-)) will continue on its course as if
Sting never existed.
David Rastall
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www.rastallmusic.com
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