Word: lutanists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Julian Bream is only 25 years old. Julian Bream is also the world's foremost lutanist. He made his achievement clear on Thursday evening before an overflowing and unusually demonstrative Sanders Theater audience. Known in this country hitherto only on recordings, Bream is making his first U.S. visit; and the Music Department is to be commended for getting him to Cambridge before his New York debut on the 30th of this month...
...Gesualdo, etc., etc., was content with the carefree luxury that befell his lot as a second son. He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer. Of an evening, he would put to sea with one of his poet friends, and spend the night improvising songs and madrigals. He might have sung away his whole life, but his elder brother died when Don Carlo was about 25, and he had to assume the responsibility...
...word is due the special care spent on the printed program. The cover appropriately reproduced a lovely painting of a Renaissance singer, flautist and lutanist (which might have been identified as being by an anonymous French master c.1525 and now in the Harrach Gallery in Vienna). The composers dates were supplied; and on the back was a full dated list of the original sources for all the pieces (though Rameau's work was published...
...Renaissance: the first verse by chorus alone, the second by Simon and three instruments, the third by chorus and instruments combined. (The Durer water colors of Inns bruck in the exhibition made clear why so many people hated to leave the little town.) With Simon and a lutanist at hand, I wonder why Beckwith gave us only the choral version of Dowland's charming ayre What If I Never Speed?; for Dowland himself included a setting for solo with lute accompaniment...