JOSEPH IADONE!
Can't believe I forgot this fine musician the first time around. Of
course, he was an impeccable ensemble musician- not a noted soloist like
Julian Bream. He started as a bass player with Hindemith, who I believe
encouraged his lute studies. I first heard him on ancient Archiv
recordings that my older brother was collecting. Was he with Binkley?
Greenburg? I don't even remember. But even in ensemble, he stood out!
Fine player. Taught Lucy Cross, I'm pretty sure. Another pioneer
lutenist of great musicality. Used to hear her a lot, back in New York.
Dan
On 8/12/2013 7:40 AM, Dan Winheld wrote:
For me, the "lute" started with the Segovia selection of "Six Lute
Pieces of the Renaissance" that he pilfered from the Oscar Chilesotti
transcription- curiously enough already put into octave treble clef
"guitar" notation- and for an "E" instrument. Then individual
movements, some from "lute" suites, by Bach- played, of course, by
guitarists. When Bream came along, that totally sealed the deal. I
then got some lute arrangements of Dowland by Karl Scheidt and my poor
guitar teacher gave up on me. At the Accademia Musicale Chigiana (S?)
back in the 1960's Alirio Diaz gave his seal of approval to my first
"intabulation"- "Sleep, Mine Eyes" by Thomas Morley. I didn't even
know the word- just saw that a lovely 3 part madrigal could fit on
guitar type instrument. One of my fellow guitar students predicted
that I would come back one day with "one of those things with a
million strings on it."
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