Yup--it is strangely ironic, but the lute solo market is very small and there is huge competition, so the I think there are other factors at play. The other irony is that making CDs a bar or two at a time reinforces very small phrases.
dt At 06:30 AM 10/11/2009, you wrote: >David, et al, Has anyone caught the irony of the fact that in >our current musical culture, the (very commercial) rock music crowd >is inherently mistrustful of recordings that sound "too slick" while >we (very, very non-commercial) classical and early music types >obsess over making our recordings sound as technically perfect as >possible? The rockers, coming at their craft with virtually no >regard or even concept of historical performance, view an >overly-produced-sounding-recording as some kind of inauthentic >representation of the genre, while a large contingent of us HIPsters >strive to manufacture the most homogeneous product. That's gotta >say something about us. Chris --- O To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
