I strongly believe that there is a tremendous potential for lute music in tiny locations - there is a concept of "living room concerts" for instance, expecting a small crowd. Also, lute music on the map of the music business is located in the alternative field, there are venues by all kinds of activists who deal in all kinds of non-mainstream music. We belong there, after all, What is wrong to play in a location today that yesterday saw a noise performance with mud throwing and the rest. We are just another kind of marginals, in a general sense.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 7:18 PM, Is Milse Póg <ishdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's true, but nowadays, concert halls are no longer the main way > people enjoy music. The kind of late-18th/19th century logic that > killed the lute isn't relevant to how we experience music anymore. > As for the classical canon, let's just say that it isn't really > mainstream anymore as well. The "graying" of classical music audiences > (when it comes to concert-goers at least) isn't something unique to the > early music and has been long notes by many classical musicians and > enthusiasts. Maybe it doesn't signify the dying-out of this musical > tradition and its instrument, but the dying-out of the way people used > to enjoy it since the late 18th century - concert-going. > So maybe the future isn't bleak for our favourite instrument, just > different. > On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, 05:32 Mark Probert, <[1]probe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, all. > My $0.02. The lute died for a reason, and that reason hasn't really > changed: it is not an instrument for modern concert halls. In > addition, > it isn't part of the "Classical Canon," being long dead when the > early > German musicologists did their thing. Which means it is, and will > reamin, a niche instrument. Those of us who play it understand its > beauty and subtlety, others may fall in love with it, but they will > be > few in number and odd in outlook. > I don't think this is anything to worry about. Simply accept and > keep > playing. All this means is it is unlikely there will be too many > factor > lutes floating around, and I don't think that is such a bad thing. > Otherwise life goes on... > .. m. > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > References > > 1. mailto:probe...@gmail.com > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
