Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...15th century confronted the Antique: a buried civilization, an Atlantis below the hills and vineyards. What did it mean when Mantegna, in the early autumn of 1464, took off with two friends on a boat decked with carpets and laurel branches, punting around Lake Garda, twangling on the lute and looking for Roman ruins? This search for "such delightful places and such venerable ancient monuments," as one of them later wrote, was a serious idyll, a way back into the past...
From First to Last: Lute Music from the 16th and 20th Centuries--Olav C. Henriksen will perform the works of Spinacino, Schlick, Attaingnant, Johnson and da Milano and 20th century works by J.N. David and Stephen Funk(y) Pearson. Boston Conservatory Concert Room, 8 The Fenway, Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Free...