Reliable continuo indeed - there is a virtue in there certainly. That said, I waited in vain for the moment when, as Gasparini puts it, the continuist would "unleash his brilliance"... (;
2009/3/15 David van Ooijen <[1][email protected]> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, David Tayler <[2][email protected]> wrote: > I can't believe I watched that, I had a last-minute St John (talking about saintly music) yesterday night, someone injured his back and I was called in. This was a conservatory orchestra, all good players but for some (including the conductor) it was their first St John. For me it was the first of the season, so stable continuo was the key word. You can imagine the smile on my face when I found this video in my mail box this morning. I wish all my continuo colleagues were as reliable. ;-) David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [3][email protected] [4]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Dr Benjamin A. Narvey Post-doctorant/Post-Doctoral Fellow Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) IVe Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques t +33 (0) 1 44 27 03 44 p/m +33 (0) 6 71 79 98 98 Site web/Website: [6]www.luthiste.com -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. http://www.luthiste.com/
