I had heard some of the Bream records throughout the early 70's and
they impressed me but didn't make it look at all attainable. If I
might be so bold, too much flash --which, of course, sold records and
filled large halls-- but didn't seem to suit the instrument.
What sealed the deal for me was seeing a lute played at the local
college (St John's College, Great Hall, built in late 17th century,
Annapolis) by the Baltimore's Roger Harmon in '76. It finally looked,
sounded and felt right. He, as a player, tutor and musicologist,
created a lute world that convinced me that the music and instrument
was real and worth studying.
Sean
On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:
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/
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