No new light on this elusive lute concerto, but there was a dark, Kurt
Weill-meets-Peter Schickele side to Hindemith that I never knew existed.
NY Times article about his pre-war send-up caricatures of Wagner. (And
the famous picture of Joe & the Collegium.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/arts/music/hindemith-master-and-prankster-at-weill-recital-hall.html
Dan
On 8/20/2013 12:05 PM, Christopher Wilke wrote:
Shouldn't someone really be looking into this? Hindemith is an important enough 20th
century composer that surely some professional ensemble (probably not the Berlin
Philharmonic) could be convinced to make the the premiere recording/performance of a
"new" concerto of his. ...if there is one.
I believe this subtopic branched from the thread about promoting broader
awareness of the lute. Well, here's a way to do that. ...if it is.
Chris
Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A.
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com
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On Sat, 8/17/13, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Hindemith lute concerto
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 8:05 PM
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.
>
>
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