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Authentic Renaissance and Baroque instruments will perform the works of these composers. Performers for the concert are Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and Renaissance lute; Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Howard Brown '51, cross flute and recorders...
...interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills the court with just the kind of sexual music Shakespeare meant when he spoke of "the lascivious pleasing of a lute...
Louis Untermeyer will read "Orpheus and His Lute," and Caryl P. Haskins will deliver his oration, "Science and the Whole Man." Van Wyck Brooks '08, president of the chapter, will preside...
...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
...block, he does a few sketches on paper and then works primarily on the wood. As a result of greater honesty to the medium, he seems to gain in mastery of space and texture, as well as in freedom. Swinging lines and the very alive look of the "Lute Player" are characteristic qualities of his work...