Word: lutes
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...lost on the Venetians. "I wish you were here in Venice!" Dürer wrote to his best friend, the Humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, in 1506. "There are so many nice fellows among the Italians who seek my company more and more every day?wise scholars, good lute-players, pipers, connoisseurs of painting . . . On the other hand there are also some of the most false, lying, thievish rascals, the like of which I could not have believed lived on earth. They copy my work in the churches and wherever they find it, and then they revile...
...military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers and 22 other foreign delegates assembled behind the gun carriage. The first rounds of a 101-gun sa lute reverberated across the city. At least 5,000,000 people had turned out for the funeral; Cairo in its thousand and one years had never seen such a spectacle. The mourners waited on the bank of the Nile, 200 deep in some places; they hung from trees and lampposts and fragile scaffolds...
...raga's path seems to change on the first beat of each cycle, which acts as a convergence point for the interplay of the two instrumentalists. Mirza sometimes suggests a rhythm in his strumming, picking right hand (the lute-like sitar is played vaguely like a guitar) which Khan then develops more fully during the coming cycle...
...interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about each dwelling, but wisely leaves conclusions to the reader...
...Carmines has provided modern but quite tonal music of light weight. "Sigh no more, ladies," sung by Balthasar (Frederick Rivera) to the on stage accompaniment of a genuine seven-course lute, is supported in the background by a group of men singing in harmony, whose major-minor shifts are charming. The solemn song near the end, "Pardon, goddess of the night," has been turned into a men's trio, with off-stage instrumental accompaniment...