Absolutely no similarity in style :)
A lot of people, probably fifty who went on to be professionals in
Early Music, were at Iadone's program in Putney VT, so you would have a
good bar bet as to who was the best known, but Tyler and Binkley would
be right up there in the lute world, and of course Bagby, Taruskin,
Bernfeld, Cunningham, Western Wind singers, you name it.
I suppose technically, WD Snodgrass was probably a lot better known
than Tyler or Binkley, and he did have the first theorbo in America, I
imagine.
You can see some amazing banjo playing by Tyler on youtube.
I remember from those days also Richard Dyer-Bennett visited, perhaps
the year was 1972 that he was there.
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From: William Samson <willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Edward Mast <nedma...@aol.com>
Cc: Lute List <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wed, March 28, 2012 6:14:15 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Right hand plucking position - was Re: Quality vs
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Jim was one of these rare birds - a very fine musician AND a
respected
musicologist.
Bill
From: Edward Mast <[1]nedma...@aol.com>
To: William Samson <[2]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Lute List <[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 13:45
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Right hand plucking position - was Re: Quality vs
Quantity
Hi Bill,
Certainly Jim Tyler would be the most well known (at least as a
performer) of Iadone's students. But I don't know if there is any
similarity in playing styles - I haven't really heard Tyler. Chris
williams studied with Iadone and recorded a bit with the NY Pro
Musica,
as did Lucy Cross. But Iadone was a unique musician; the only
comparisons that come to mind are musicians such as Art Tatum or
Oscar
Peterson. He developed that kind of rhythmic excitement. I attended
some of the summer music workshops that he directed, and never had a
lute lesson or heard a lute solo. All ensemble work, singing,
theory,
or lute songs, and of course faculty and student concerts - but no
solos. A different emphasis.
Best,
Ned
On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:18 AM, William Samson wrote:
> Hi Ned,
> It looks like quite an independent strand of development of lute
technique was developed by Iadone, likely starting with the same
sources as Poulton used. I think Diana Poulton and Susanne Bloch
became great friends in the '60s, but I could have my date wrong
there. Diana did attend at least one LSA get-together.
> I would guess Iadone's influence on this side of the Pond mostly
came
via his student, the great Jim Tyler, who lived in London for many
years.
> I wondered if Paul O'Dette had studied lute with him, but as far as
I
can see the only lutenist teacher mentioned in his resume is Eugen
Dombois - yet another strand!
> Best regards,
> Bill
>
> From: Edward Mast <[1][4]nedma...@aol.com>
> To: William Samson <[2][5]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: Lute List <[3][6]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 21:36
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Right hand plucking position - was Re: Quality
vs
Quantity
>
> Fortunately, I think, Iadone had no teacher (of lute) . He was
from
quite a different musical and lute 'family' than Dolmetsch and
Poulton; no relation to Dolmetsch, I would say, and only a very
distant relation to Poulton.
>
> Best,
>
> Ned
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 3:02 PM, William Samson wrote:
>
> > I couldn't agree more, Ned. But Schaeffer was the one who
successfully proselytised and tipped the balance.
> >
> > Even before Iadone there was Arnold Dolmetsch - a
flesh-plucking-pinky-on-bridger, uncontaminated because he learned
straight from the sources and didn't play classical guitar first.
Here's an image of him around 100 years ago:
> > [4][7]http://tinyurl.com/ccmoxu6
> >
> > He went on to teach Diana Poulton, who went on to teach . . .
almost everybody!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
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