On Aug 17, 2013, at 4:08 PM, David Tayler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, there was a concerto for Iadone. This seems like a more definitive statement than the one you posted six years ago. Have you acquired new information since? Or am I reading too much into it> On August 13, 2007, David Tayler wrote: > there may be anecdotal evidence for a more elaborate concerto as > Joseph Iadone several times described playing > a lute concerto to me back in the late 60s, early 70s. Iadone was of > course heavily involved in Hindemith's Collegium at Yale. > > From the description, it seems more likely that this piece was > either an arrangement or a piece written for Hindemith's students, > possibly a reworking of the > material for one of the other concertos. But that is conjecture; I > don't have my notes from that time, his wife might know. There are > probably some Hindemith works still out there. > > I never pursued looking for the piece, because Iadone always > commented about how the lute was completely drowned out by the orchestra, > although I suppose modern recording techniques could fix that in a > jiffy. His wife might know. > > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
