Word: lute
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room apartment in Moscow, which was dominated by a huge black and white canvas entitled The Fish Merchant and Fish. Neither merchant nor fish were in evidence-it was hardly an example of having "knuckled under" to Communist social realism. We drank tea and listened to Tallin playing a lute (made with his own hands) and singing old Russian ballads learned from blind minstrels, with whom he traveled from village to village begging alms when he was a young boy. I was told that he ran away from home at the age of nine and lived free as the wind...
...arbitrary and misconceived, such as in the third movement of the Sonata in A, where he played the basso continuo left hand on the more loudly voiced manual, and the more important right hand line (in canon with the violin) on the softer one. His frequent use of the lute and leather stops became annoying, largely because of the basic ugliness of these stops on this particular harpsichord, as well as the instrument's generally unpleasant metallic tone...
...film; Ralph Waite is a dashingly demagogic Claudius. Anita Dangler is a fluttery flibbertigibbet of a Gertrude, while April Shawhan is a sexy, miniskirted Ophelia. Gait MacDermot's pounding rock background seems at least as appropriate to this version of the play as the gentle pleasing of a lute might have been in a 17th century production. Papp's new Hamlet will not crowd traditional stagings off the board, but it deserves credit for trying to cast fresh light on the iridescent original...
...lute, a 14-string, potbellied cousin of the guitar whose more delicate strains went out of fashion two centuries ago, Bream has a special capacity to enliven the courtly archaisms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. This is not only a matter of musicianship but of an instinctive sympathy for the older period's flavor, style, and more restrained decibel level. He reads about the era voraciously, fancies that he might have felt right at home in it. "I strum one chord on the lute," he says wistfully, "and I go back 400 years...
...expanded repertory represented by Bream's new recording is certain to increase his popularity, which already is great enough to sell out auditoriums like Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and London's Wigmore Hall for guitar-lute recitals. Young people, especially, like his old-shoe manner-he slouches spread-legged in a chair, chatting and joking with the audience between selections-and look to him as a sort of troubadour of time-tested musical values. "The young love the clarity, order and logic of my music," he says. "They are people who are looking not only forward but back." People...