Another Stravinsky a pizzico aside that came to me via mandolin composer and copyright researcher Neil Gladd:
Stravinsky's ballet Agon has a brief mandolin part. The English mandolinist Hugo D'Alton performed Agon with Stravinsky conducting in London during the 1950s. Stravinsky was so impressed that he offered to write a mandolin concerto for D'Alton . . . if D'Alton could conjure up a £20,000 commission fee. Needless to say, being a professional mandolinist confined in time to the 1950s, D'Alton couldn't, and the concerto never came to be. Ah well . . . Best, Eugene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Samson Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 6:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - "Would you like to see my lute?" In a recent interview Bream said that his main career objective was to get serious composers to write for the guitar and admitted that he made a nuisance of himself in the nicest possible way until they did. He was clearly trying out his technique on Stravinsky, but with a lute rather than a guitar. At the end of the day, Bream has done more than any other guitarist to interest composers in his instrument and even get them to write for it. Embarassing for JB to have this unsuccessful seduction recorded on film for all to see, but Igor maybe missed an opportunity there. Bill From: Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> To: Arto Wikla <[email protected]>; lute list <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 8:55 Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - "Would you like to see my lute?" On the complete DVD, which you can find on youtube, you get more background to the encounter. It was an impossible situation for Julian. On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:47 PM, [1][email protected] wrote: > But it is quite irritating to see, how obsequious JB is ... Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [2]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch [3]https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow [4]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 3. https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow 4. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
