I highly recommend it. I commissioned a work from Ronn McFarlane and I think itâs one of his most beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE> Ronn playing it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc> Recording: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=878859469 <https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/878859427?i=878859469> Also commissioned a version of Adon Olam from Rene Schiffer that is in the form of a passacaglia with a theorbo part. Letâs keep them gainfully employed! Danny > On Dec 21, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Jacob Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think that's entirely accurate. Ronn McFarlane plays his own > compositions, Jakob Lindberg performs the Britten Nocturnal (I know, > it's not that new, and it's not really for lute, but IMO it kinda > counts), Chris Wilke recorded a whole cd of Roman Turovsky's new works > for baroque lute, I saw Elizabeth Kenny perform TWO recent theorbo > commissions at the LuteFestWest, and there's certainly more examples I > just can't think of at the moment. > As soon as I can afford to do so, I intend to commission some works for > myself to play. > > Jacob Johnson > [uc?export=download&id=0B6_gM3BRE6ZrYVVZZU5QNmJqdDQ&revid=0B6_g > M3BRE6ZraW9nQ2U4SGNwV0tYVWxobnNBVjBsZi9FNHhzPQ] > Guitar/Lute > [1]www.johnsonguitarstudio.com > 469.237.0625. > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Stetson > <[2][email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all. > An interesting question, Peter, thanks for bringing it up. To > answer > honestly and personally, I'm not especially interested in new > music, > per se, for any of the instruments I play (mainly lute, guitar, > mandolin, but some others too). I couldn't really say why, > except > that the music I've looked at from the last 30 years tends, and I > mean > tends, to be difficult and not especially tuneful to my ear. > There > are exceptions, of course, and I play some of those, though > mostly on > guitar. I'm not a professional, so I tend to be fairly > conservstive > in the music I choose to spend time seeking out and playing. I > also > don't play many of the old compositions that fit the above > criteria. > I fully realize. however, that one person's difficult is > another > person's interesting, and I'm really glad that people are writing > new > music for lute. > Best to all, and keep playing, > Chris. > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Peter Martin > <[1][3][email protected]> > wrote: > Hello all, > I recently bought a Wigmore Hall Live CD of a 2013 concert by > countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Thomas Dunford. It > included > the world premiere performance of a substantial piece by Nico > Muhly > called Old Bones. Up to now, I'd never heard of it, which > surprised > me because Muhly is a very successful young American composer. > His > new opera Marnie has just premiered at English National Opera, > and his > previous opera Two Boys was given at ENO and at the Met in New > York. > The score of Old Bones is available from Music Sales. Yet I > can't see > that the lute world has paid the slightest attention to it. > Which sets me wondering, not about Muhly as such, but about new > music > generally. With the honourable exception of Jacob > Heringman, > scarcely > anyone plays it. Any thoughts on why this is? Are we > simply > not > interested in new music? > Peter > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > > [2][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- > References > 1. mailto:[5][email protected] > 2. [6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.johnsonguitarstudio.com/ > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 5. mailto:[email protected] > 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
