Word: lutes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Julian Bream will give a concert of lute music by John Dowland, Elizabethan composer, on Oct. 9th at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The concert, sponsored by the Department of Music, is free, with no tickets required...
...pale pastel shades of life rather than its raw primary colors. Filtered through Author (Black Narcissus) Godden's genteel mem-sahib vision, India becomes a setting instead of a place, Hindus and Moslems become figures in a tapestry instead of people, and life moves to the lute strings of poetry instead of the purse strings of necessity. As a free versifier, Author Godden ranks somewhat below another run-of-the-pagoda poet, Emperor Hirohito...
...right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed contemporary musician, last week gave U.S. listeners a taste of his country's traditional music...
...Says Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson of Lute Player: "It is a young Roman girl...
...interested to note in the caption for the Caravaggio Lute Player, reproduced among the Hermitage treasures, that TIME [Feb. 4] labels the subject a "Roman girl...