On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote: > Say what you will about Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed's review of the > English Concert in this morning's paper, it at least concentrated on the > important stuff. Here's the beginning: > >> The battle of the bands did not go so far as theorbos at 10 paces. It’s a >> good thing too. Those strikingly tall 17th century lutes could probably >> make decent weapons. And frankly, the outcome of a match between London’s >> two best-known period instrument groups, both of which appeared in Southern >> California in recent days, wouldn’t have been pretty. >> >> Under its burly music director, Richard Egarr, the Academy of Ancient
I've played with Richar Egarr, one hell of a continuo animal! Both fore arm on the keys of his cembalo if needed! But delicate too. Very inspiring fellow musician; always fun on stage. On a tour of 30 times L'Orfeo he'd sneek in a Happy Birthday in a recitative if someone had his birthday. We'd notice, but did the audience? David - just home from a very exhausting St John rehearsal from 14:00 till 22:00 in a cold church: mediocre everything, waste of time, however great the music. At least I got to play the Jesus recits. -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
