[LUTE] Re: Lute concert

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Bolton
In this current discussion, you (Bruno) were the only one to have been at the concert so you have every right to your perceptions. Your perception of the experience is yours and yours alone. Right or Wrong. Tuning your ears to a lute recital is something that gets better with experience. I think

[LUTE] Re: St. John Passion

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Bolton
Well at least you have TONS of time before easter :) Good luck and in a perfect world someone will come up to you after the concert and say... that Lute was TOO loud. On 9/4/07, David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The St John Passion part is a very odd duck. It exists in several sources.

[LUTE] BBC Early Music Show this week

2007-07-01 Thread Chris Bolton
you can. Regards, Chris Bolton -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] An interesting article in the Washington post.

2007-04-09 Thread Chris Bolton
I had to admit to myself that I've been guilty of the same phenomenon as described in the following article, but I've decided to keep listening and plucking away in spite of the somewhat depressing state of affairs. Is it just a romantic notion that life as a lute player would have been easier

[LUTE] Re: tablature for beginners

2007-04-06 Thread Chris Bolton
And don't forget about practicing with regular notation. It is *really* useful especially when it comes to playing with other musicians. Stefan Lundren's Renaissance Lute book is an oldy but goody, and I just found out that he has a lot of great stuff online at http://www.luteonline.de/ This

[LUTE] Re: lute teacher Needed..Scam?

2007-04-06 Thread Chris Bolton
Of all of the occupations that one could from which one might possibly target to scam money, a lute player would be pretty far down the list. You'd figure the payoff would be significantly better targetting CEO's or bankers or just about ANYONE other than a lute player. Nearly every lute player

[LUTE] Re: Krakow

2007-04-02 Thread Chris Bolton
://www.krakow-info.com/hejnal.htm I don't remember the tune so well, but the ending sure was memorable. Have fun in Poland Regards, Chris Bolton On 4/2/07, Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of any interesting museums, music shops etc (anything to do with old plucked things

[LUTE] Italian Frottole broadcast on BBC radio's site.

2007-03-14 Thread Chris Bolton
BBC radio's Early Music show has a broadcast which you can listen to online of Italian Frottole of Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Marco Cara. It is a nice programme featuring 3 lutes and some nice cornetto playing. It will likely only be online for a couple of days but it is worth a listen

[LUTE] Re: something totally different:)

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Bolton
Eddie Van Halen was granted a U.S. Patent in 1987 for a device which supposedly makes this style of playing easier. The supporting pictures in the patent application are amusing. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT4656917 On 3/12/07, Narada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eat your heart out