[LUTE] Re: Some questions

[Silvia Amato]

Actually we do have some of them and this is one of the topics that I have 
dealt with in my thesis (modern and contemporary Lute music), it's a very 
interesting research that goes on, looking for new aspects still to be dealt 
with 
Best regards to all 
Silvia
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> Il giorno 15 mar 2018, alle ore 12:13, Matthew Daillie 
>  ha scritto:
> 
>> On 15/03/2018 01:45, Ron Andrico wrote:
>>  I don't usually bother to respond to your sniping noises,
>> 
>>There is no stature to be gained by treating the work of others with
>>disdain while claiming a morally superior position
> 
> Goodness Ron , those are comments that could definitely have granted you a 
> valuable source of introspection. The art of projection never ceases to amaze 
> me.
> 
> Gilbert Isbin's email was quite belligerent in its questioning. My post was a 
> straightforward answer. I have nothing against lute players composing and 
> performing their own music, I just don't wish to be aggressively interrogated 
> as to why I'm not buying or playing it.
> 
> I never said that I prefer 'old music', just that I don't see much 'new' lute 
> music out there to compete with the production of the great masters. We seem 
> to be forgetting that the lute was THE instrument of its age and that many of 
> the works which have come down to us are the acme of musical production.
> 
> I cannot think of a major composer today who only writes for one instrument. 
> If we look at 20th century music, very often the great instrumentalists 
> commissioned works from contemporary distinguished composers. Maybe we need 
> one of today's top lutenists to do the same, just as Julian Bream 
> commissioned Benjamin Britten to write Nocturnal for guitar (based on 
> Dowland's 'Come Heavy Sleep') over 50 years ago. The filter of time has not 
> yet finished its job and we do not know what works will survive for 
> prosperity but we can look back at the 20th century and find an endless list 
> of great composers (Bartok, Berio, Britten, Crumb, Dutilleux, Gubaidulina, 
> Kurtag, Ligeti, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Rihm, Shnittke, Shostakovich, 
> Stravinsky, to name but a few). Maybe we need a composer of their ilk to 
> write for the lute before there is a real renaissance of its music.
> 
> Then there is the captivating experience of playing music which is 500 years 
> old and yet speaks to us directly with ineffable force and beauty. That 
> fascination, in conjunction with the historical, artistic and musicological 
> riches which accompany our music-making, are surely the main reasons why most 
> of us took up the lute in the first place.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 
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[LUTE] Re: New music

[Silvia Amato]

I hope to see this music , it's really interesting! I Hope the composers will 
publish their work!
Best regards 
Silvia 

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> Il giorno 22 dic 2017, alle ore 04:10, Peter Hoar <78r...@gmail.com> ha 
> scritto:
> 
>   Jozef van Wissem writes music for Baroque lute.
> 
>   On 22 December 2017 at 13:43, Stephan Olbertz
>   <[1]stephan.olbe...@web.de> wrote:
> 
> I like this one here by Dosia McKay, comissioned by Will Tocaben:
> [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6lgO_kWGzo
> And a nice chat with the composer:
> [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxpE-7YrUY
> After 10 minutes it gets kind of funny when she talks about her love
> of
> Bach's bass lines...
> Regards
> Stephan
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: [4]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:[5]lute-arc@cs.dartmouth.
> edu] Im Auftrag
> von Toby Carr
> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Dezember 2017 00:32
> An: lutelist Net
> Betreff: [LUTE] Re: New music
>Matthew Wadsworth's latest CD included a new piece for theorbo by
>Stephen Goss that I think is worth mentioning, and I believe they
> have
>plans to continue that collaboration
>On 21 Dec 2017 23:16, "David van Ooijen"
> <[1][6]davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
> Like most (pro) lute players, I play, record and arrange my
> share
>  of
> contemporary music, have some written for me even, but it's
> far
> outnumbered by early music.
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 00:12, Daniel Shoskes
> <[1][2][7]kidneykut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   I highly recommend it. I commissioned a work from Ronn
>  McFarlane and
>   I think it's one of his most beautiful:
>   [2][3][8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE
>   <[3][4][9]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgAAyMtgtE>
>   Ronn playing it live: [4][5][10]https://www.youtube.com/
>  watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc
>   <[5][6][11]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3j5muuVKc>
>   Recording:
>   [6][7][12]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/
>  878859427?i=8788594
>   69
>   <[7][8][13]https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passacaglia/
>  878859427?i=878859
>   469>
>   Also commissioned a version of Adon Olam from Rene
> Schiffer
>  that is
>   in the form of a passacaglia with a theorbo part.
>   Let's keep them gainfully employed!
>   Danny
>> On Dec 21, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Jacob Johnson
> 
> <[8][9][14]tmrguitar...@gmail.com> 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
>> 
> 
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>  amp;revid=0B
>   6_g
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>> Guitar/Lute
>> [1][9][10][15]www.johnsonguitarstudio.com
>> [16][11]469.237.0625.
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Christopher
> Stetson
> 
>> <[2][10][12][17]christophertstet...@gmail.com> 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