In a Garden So Green on You tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQwTdkV2Hs
Sorry no high def :( dt At 11:30 PM 11/30/2007, you wrote: >Piazzola sounds great on the theorbo > >dt > > > > >At 08:28 AM 11/30/2007, you wrote: > >Hi Howard, > > > >--- howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > You accusin' me a' cheatin? > > > >Nah, ya ain't no cheater... But I think you have > >missed my point. > > > > > Narrow specialization doesn't mean lack of > > > interest. > > > >No, but by its very nature, narrow specialization does > >imply a homogeneity that makes it difficult to relate > >to groups outside of people already in the know. > > > > > > > It's > > > precisely those programs that sell. "Violin > > > concertos by Venetian > > > composers published in Amsterdam in 1725" seems > > > arcane, but audiences > > > will come to hear "The Four Seasons." "Viennese > > > chamber music > > > written in 1806" sounds bland, but they'll come to > > > hear Beethoven's > > > opus 59 quartets. "Italian operas written for > > > Prague theaters in > > > 1787" is a loser; "Don Giovanni" is a winner. > > > Concerts of music by > > > one well-known composer are safe programming bets. > > > > > > >They are safe bets right now and I understand why they > >are done. Still, most ordinary symphony orchestras > >(i.e. not baroque) don't do a specialized program for > >the vast majority of their other concerts. I think > >narrow programming will give the field real trouble in > >the future as those of us in EM become perceived more > >and more as a one trick pony by the "outside world." > > > > > > > > II can think offhand of all-Weiss CDs by Lutz > > > Kirchhof, Konrad > > > Junghanel, Yasunori Imamura, Toyohiko Satoh, > > > Hopkinson Smith (2), > > > Robert Barto (8?), Richard Stone, Jakob Lindberg, > > > John Schneiderman, > > > Michel Cardin and Franklin Lei, and I'm sure half > > > the folks reading > > > this post could double the listing. > > > >I could add to your list as well - but I was speaking > >primarily of specialization in concert programing. > > > >To run with your point, however - aside from Robert > >Barto, most of the performers you named _haven't_ > >specialized on one composer, one repertoire, one > >instrument for all of their other recording projects. > >(Even Barto has the stylistically quite different > >Hagen recordings.) So, while these guys do structure > >their recordings around themes, they haven't done so > >within the context of their careers. > > > >This was the past thinking in CD sales: pick a > >composer or repertoire and make _that_ the selling > >point rather than the skills or reputation of the > >performer. In EM, no record company would touch a > >recording project that featured a little of this/a > >little of that because it was too hard to shelve in > >the bins of brick and mortar stores. This is turning > >out to be a REALLY BAD IDEA nowadays. Its coming back > >to bite us in the rear end as the music industry moves > >from a hardcopy-oriented format to online sales. > >Unfortunately, having a neatly-packaged, specialized > >CD program ain't gonna help you one bit on iTunes! > >How will we cope when CDs go the way of the LP? > > > > > > > > > (A somewhat well-known viola da gamba > > > > player I know claims Weiss is "weird and > > > > incomprehensible." What the...???) > > > > > > He's right. Weiss on the gamba is weird and > > > incomprehensible, > > > particularly if the gambist plays directly from the > > > tablature. > > > -- > > > >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? > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > > > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________ > _________________ > >Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
