Maybe that is true, but there are thousands of CDs--maybe in some sense those recordings are some sort of dream world :)
I don't think the unedited videos will stop. I just think we are now in a new stage. And the former one was like a real window into what we were really doing, or about as real as it could be. dt And >On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I've not yet put myself playing on line, but rather hope that > > one day > > I'll feel confident enough to do so. I doubt that I'll ever > > have the > > equipment necessary to edit myself. But I also wonder if I > > would want > > to do that. I think now (will my views change?) that if I'm not > > able > > to give a presentable performance of a piece without editing, > > that I > > would simply wait until I were able to. Thus far, I've assumed > > that > > everything I've seen on line has been unedited, and I've been very > > impressed by these performances. > >If you're primary concern is self-promotion, or if you live in a >world where no differentiation exists between iconography and real >life, then yes, you're going to want to edit yourself. But if >neither the arrogance rat-race nor the dreeeeeam world appeal to you, >and all you want to do is share your music-making with others, warts >and all, just for the love of the lute, which I've always believef >was the reason for having the lute list in the first place, then I >don't see that the "Golden Age Is Over." That's nonsense. > >Best, > >David Rastall >[email protected] >www.rastallmusic.com > > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
