I've taken the lute to bedside at Holy Name hospital in Teaneck NJ and
Mount Sinai in NYC. Only issue was with older patients who had hearing
difficulties - especially those who are on respirators. But the visual
was always enthusiastically received - the brain always lights up when
it is experiencing something positive and new. If requested, I'd play
contemporary songs on it. All is fair game.
I've also taken the lute to Bergen Community College where I passed it
around to all the guitar students. They were blown away. Lots of
questions.
I've been performing with Musicians on Call at bedside in hospitals in
the metro NYC area for 12 years or more - now with mostly contemporary
songs, me on guitar, and with my singing partner.
If anyone is interested in this volunteer program (lutes are welcome)
please reach out either to me or directly to MOC. There are programs in
the USA and maybe by now in Canada.
Cheers,
Lynda
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On Jan 5, 2018, at 3:45 AM, "[2]mathias.roe...@t-online.de"
<[3]mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote:
I take my lute once a week to the kindergarten. The children love the
sound and start singing once they see it. We sing their songs, of
course, but the divisions I do for every stanza would fit renaissance
music just as well.
And I take it to hospital for visits. I don't open the suitcase
unless
requested, but when I do, most patients love it. One advantage of
hospitals in terms of acoustics is that the floors are of very hard
material. You may effortlessly play short easy pieces in slow pace.
Mathias
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Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Early Music life
Datum: 05.01.2018, 0:22 Uhr
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I have played in them as well and most of the people there are in the
80s, a lot with some kind of dementia, so they like pop tunes from
their
youth. I talked with someone at one of those places last year and she
said that our kind of music works better in retirement homes in
upscale
communities with more of the demographic that might have been concert
goers in their youth.
I have also played in restaurants and coffee shops over the years.
Chains don not work at all - they want each of their places to be
exactly the same and lute music does not fit with their corporate
image. Here in California even the ones that are not part of a
chain
like to look they are a chain and have done their research about the
local communities they draw from. The last one I played at was fine
until a new owner came in and decided that looking like a sport bar
was
a better image to make more money. That said, if I had a mailing
list
of active lute music fans, I probably would have been able to stay
there
playing in what was a dead time in their schedule.
Nancy
I remember playing at a "retirement home" once. Most depressing
thing
ever - the pensioners were all down on heavy drugs and one foot away
from the grave... or one push of the wheelchair away, more
accurately. After that, playing at the veterans hospital was a
truly
joyful experience. You do the gigs you can, specially when they are
payed.
One of my friends, a jazz player with a golden album, used to play
in
local bars and got minimal audiences with minimal attention spans
for
music. Jazz is still popular in Europe, but all but dead here. Part
of
it I think are the venues: streets, metro stations and restaurants
in
Europe lend themselves to music, particularly in the summer.
Any brave soul tried to play at a McDonald's or a Starbucks?? I am
wondering how many seconds it would take to see them ejected by
"management".
Also, watching The Blues Brothers does not encourage acts of musical
bravery in local bars deep inland...
On 01/04/2018 01:57 PM, John Mardinly wrote:
I played my lute at a hospice once. Went over like a lead
balloon.
Classical guitar was better received.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco Goya
On Jan 4, 2018, at 2:38 PM, Tristan von Neumann
<[1]tristanvonneumann@[2][4]gmx.de>; wrote:
My proposition would be the following:
Assemble a team: three lutists minimum!
If possible, add recorders, Renaissance guitar, cittern etc.,
a
dulcian
and a trombone, and for the sake of beats some Renaissance
percussion.
If you have a portable organ, get it on stage.
Go to your local jazz club and pitch "Early Music Jazz Jam
Session".
When playing, have the musicians occupy the functions of
respective
jazz musicians.
Jam the hell out of Passamezzi, Romanescas, Bergamascas etc.,
throw in
some song standards like Vestiva I Colli or Can She Excuse, do
virtuoso
solos. I bet the audience will have fun.
Get that stick out of your spine and rock the venue.
Am 04.01.2018 um 20:52 schrieb
[2]theoj89294@[3][5]new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu:
Having friends in psychology, economics, and
marketing/advertising, we
have had this discussion over beer. And the general
conclusion
was that
most artists (including early music artists) ought
not be
lamenting
about why people don't show up to appreciate their
art, but
rather they
should be discussing how best to draw in an
audience. Think
about
it,
if a graphic artist wants to put on an exhibit, they
will
bringing
alcohol, maybe food, hire a musician, and create an
inviting
atmosphere
for socializing. Moreover, symphony orchestras also
have this
problem
and their partial (yet successful) solution are the
multimedia
programs; live performance of film music over film
clips of
Harry
Potter, Star Wars, etc.
The fact (sad or not) is that audiences have MANY
distractions
pulling
their attention nowadays. Music alone, no matter how
pure or
inspirational, won't draw an audience as much as
music PLUS
something
else - drama or a story, visuals, alcohol, dance,
etc. I
think it
would
behoove early music artists to start thinking about
this and
corroborating and creating more engaging programs.
And there
are
successful examples of this out there, but there
needs to be
more.
One more thing, I am also reminded of a program done
years
ago by
Steven Wade (?) called 'Banjo Dancing' (?). He
performed as one
man
with a banjo. He played, told stories, sang, and had
a truly
engaging
performance. And it drew audiences. There is
absolutely no
reason
why
something similar couldn't be done by a lutenist
given some
talent and
hard work in creating such a stage performance. And
as a
disclaimer, I
am not a professional musician, so these are merely
my
opinions,
looking in from the outside.
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