On Nov 30, 2007, at 8:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, sadly, the person - a baroque music specialist and > international recording artist with a distinguished > pedigree from a prestigeous early music program - was > speaking of hearing Weiss performed under the capable > fingers of qualified lutenists. Undoubtedly, this > amounts to personal taste, but if we aren't turning > this person on, who ARE we connecting with? Listeners not stricken with his particular deaf spot. You seem to think that his dislike of Weiss can or should be generalized to a larger population of early music aficionados. A choral director who was for a time the leading person in early music choral performance in Los Angeles would enthusiastically tell anyone who asked, "I *loathe* Handel." But Handel's doing fine, thank you. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
