Bream's "Dances of Dowland" worked for me. And introduced me to JD as well!
Leonard Williams On 8/12/13 9:12 AM, "A.J. Padilla MD" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'll bet some large fraction (at least in the U.S.) of lute players, >professional or avocational, got turned on by the 1960's Julian Bream >album >"An Evening of Elizabethan Music." Even though he was playing a >heavily-constructed, inauthentic "LSO" (Lute-Shaped Object) the artistry >and >the musical content were there. We should take some sort of poll. >I got the LP in 1966, and my first student lute in 1980, so I only waited >14 >years.... > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf >Of Geoff Gaherty >Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:32 AM >To: lute >Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - astronomy analogy? > >On 12/08/13 2:46 AM, William Samson wrote: >> Sadly, I suspect that 'sidewalk lutenists' wouldn't attract the same >> queues as sidewalk astronomers. Even I, as a lutenist, have a much >> clearer recollection of my first view of Saturn's rings through a >> telescope than I have of first hearing a lute. > >As a matter of fact, I once saw this "sidewalk lutenist" in a piazza in >Venice: > >https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53488562/lutenist%20in%20Venice.jpg > >He was drawing quite a crowd, in fact. This was on a tour of Italy >following the March 31 2006 solar eclipse in Jalu, Libya. A friend saw >him >a couple of months ago there, and he's now selling CDs, just as someone >here >suggested. > >I can't remember when I first _heard_ a lute, probably when I bought a >Julian Bream LP of lute music, but I have a vivid memory of first >_seeing_ a >lute (actually a lute guitar), in a Montreal music store window at the age >of 17 or 18. It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to own and play >one, though it was 20 years later that I achieved that. > >Geoff > >-- >Geoff Gaherty >Foxmead Observatory >Coldwater, Ontario, Canada >http://www.gaherty.ca >http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/ > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
