Thank you for the reality check! So the black and white video is from 54. Serialism, hadn't heard that term before not being all that music knowledgeable, must mean some really modern atonal stuff, so it looks like uncle Igor freaked after being semi bullied into seeing and hearing Bream's bulky lute.
Also, I recently saw an Anthony Rooley instructional video (in color so not as old) in which he tells a story about 8th century Baghdad where an Oud player of heavy Ouds (whose name I couldn't quite hear) used to play at night to help an insomniac sultan (whose name also wasn't clear). The story sounded a lot like Louis XIV and de Visee). When the sultan heard a younger player of a new lighter Oud, he supposedly preferred the newer instrument and neglected the old player, who supposedly threatened the young one with death if he didn't get out of town. The young Oud player supposedly fled Baghdad and after a couple of years ended up at the Caliphate of Cordoba, where he was welcomed by an open minded potentate. This is supposedly how the lute ended up in Europe in a lighter form. Does this sound credible to you? Sure would be a great story if it were true. Mark Seifert From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Mark Seifert <[email protected]> Cc: "Braig, Eugene" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 4:46 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - "Would you like to see my lute?" Stravinsky's proclivities shifted to serialism after 1954, so it looks the opposite.... Sir Julian must have annoyed the hell out of uncle Igor. RT On 8/16/2013 1:06 AM, Mark Seifert wrote: > I wonder if Stravinsky's change to more classical styles later in life > might have been partly stimulated by his encounter with Bream. Guess > we may never know for certain. > > Mark > From: "Braig, Eugene" <[1][email protected]> > To: "[2][email protected]" <[3][email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:32 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - "Would you like to > see my lute?" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f8fej9Sqo > Eugene > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected]
