My daughter fell in love with the Sting CD, and we would sit in the
loving room where I'd have to reproduce the lute parts from tab while
she'd sing. The highlight was meeting Sting at a concert at Jazz at
Lincoln Center in NYC (about seven years ago) where we sat four seats
away from Sting.
During intermission she asked Sting if he was going to do a follow-up
CD, and he told her that he would love to keep going with the project,
but it was too expensive.
Related - when asked why he didn't cut money losers like Vladimir
Horowitz and others from the CBS roster, record industry icon Clive
Davis said, you don't keep your classical label going because it's
lucrative: You keep it because it's a treasure.
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Lynda Kraar
On Sep 8, 2017, at 5:59 AM, David van Ooijen
<[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Love that, Mathias.
David
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On 8 September 2017 at 11:53, Mathias Rà �sel
<[3][4]mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote:
My daughter was eight when his CD was released. I used it as a
lullaby for
her. The next morning she asked about it, and I said, well, you can
sing the
songs you like best yourself. Children of that age can learn
rapidly. Can
She Excuse, and Now, Oh Now, and Come Again were her first three
Dowland
songs, and I was as proud of her as a father can be.
And all of it was Sting's merit!
Mathias
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Von: [4][5]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
[mailto:[5][6]lute-arc@cs.dartmouth.
edu] Im Auftrag
von Jurgen Frenz
Gesendet: Freitag, 8. September 2017 09:23
An: Tristan von Neumann
Cc: lutelist Net
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: "Sting Effect" (was Direwolf Hall)
In my opinion, only a handful of extremists claiming to defend
the
purity of the music would belittle Sting's recording. Even some
of the
terrifying recordings of lute music by some real bad players on
YouTube
have a least one positive impact: On the player him/herself. The
'knowing' public smiles at awful performances and moves on (the
folks I
know do), in no way even these people don't bring down lute
music
or
Mr. Dowland or anybody else.
If there's only one player (and apparently there's one on this
list)
who was moved by Sting's recording to pick up the lute then
there
is a
positive impact on the public. And as far as the purity of any
early
music is concerned: Let's listen to some identical Dowland
pieces
recorded recently say by O'Dette and Hopkinson. They sound
complete
different and I think it is great that they do. With the
distance
of
over 400 years and the lost knowledge of the time we discover
and
bring
out things in the music that we find remarkable today - if Mr.
Dowland
or Francesco or whoever had that in mind is nothing to be
concerned
about. We live the music now and it is the best service that we
can do
to early music - which is keeping it alive.
Just my opinion as said in the beginning.
Best
Jurgen
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a
drop"
Rumi
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: "Sting Effect" (was Direwolf Hall)
Local Time: 8 September 2017 9:44 AM
UTC Time: 8 September 2017 02:44
From: [6][7]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de
To: lutelist Net <[7][8]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sting raised at least my interest in the Lute.
Mainly because of Karamazov, but still.
It also led to "Singer-Songwriter Time Travels",
a series of concerts where contemporary singer-songwriters
were covering old Lute songs or similar Early Music.
This worked surprisingly well.
Am 07.09.2017 um 23:26 schrieb G. C.:
Harsh words, I liked Sting"s effort. Karamazow also made a fine
input.
On the whole, lute-propagating I think.
G.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:18 PM, LSA Lute Rental Program
<[1][8][9]lsaluteren...@gmail.com> wrote:
no effect noticed. Perhaps that is because Sting did neither
Dowland
nor the lute any service? Not an "artist" I would have chosen
to sing
Dowland...or anything else for that matter.
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