Bill, this is really interesting and exciting. I hope you will keep us posted, and that we'll get to see and hear the lyre live before too much longer. Thanks!...
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we can't let entropy kill this site! so, paula, how did the monteverdi gig go in denton? several years ago i saw a production in boston and while the harp was...
bill taylor, if you're reading this, i would definitely love to hear more on your recreation of sumerian music. we know nothing of this language, no phonemes,...
ooh- carolyn, let's call it what it is- a lyre. and yes, it is a very fascinating artifact that still has the power to bellow across the ages and shake...
ah, but here's where the wicket gets sticky. the sumerians who supplanted the native ubaid culture flourished around 2500 b.c. the music dr. kilmer writes of...
this is just to you, btw- i'm glad you mentioned your desire to just make music and not necessarily recreate something of which we can possibly never know (oh,...
Hi Gregory! Who was playing harp in the Jordan Hall production? And was kind of harp was it? I think the experience you report is all too common...I think our...
thanks paula for sharing. it sounds like you had a sympathetic director who understood acoustics and wanted you center stage for projection reasons. and...
i just posted a photo of the front panel from the lyre of Puabi- something that i had discussed in one of the messages. then i thought that perhaps many folks...
hi all i've posted more iconography of the sumerian lyre in the photo section. flory- i accidently dumped an image in your 'rogue's gallery'- if you could be...
Thanks for posting the beautiful images, Gregory! The inlaid soundbox is absolutely spectacular. I am very interested in the ancient world, so if you continue...
Hey all: For any of you who might be interested in the lyre, here's something that might interest you: It's Benjamin bagby's performance of Beowulf. ...
I was fortunate enough to see Ben's performance of Beowulf at Indiana U while I was a grad student there. It was utterly compelling and magical. Unfortunately...
thanks larry for posting that. i was lucky to see ben do this at amherst college back in 1996. this poem had been a fave of mine for awhile, so i was thrilled...
Greg: We must've been at the same Sequentia concert ,as I too saw Ben and the group literally bring the house down with Gunnar's tale. The rest of the program...
yes- it was in jordan hall 2005 boston early music festival. it was riveting. the whole sequentia performance was just perfection, but the 'gunnar in the snake...
big shout out of thanks to pat for posting that info about grendel's mom. it points out just how important it is to understand the world view or cosmology of...
Ohh...you guys are making me envious. Wish I'd been there. Paula ... riveting. the whole sequentia performance was just perfection, but the 'gunnar in the...
well paula, with your performing experience you should be there! the boston early music festival has tons of peripheral concerts that go on during the...
Thanks, Gregory! As a matter of fact, I was planning to do a fringe concert at the Boston Early Music Festival next summer...however, we recently heard that my...
For those interested in such things, you might check out the side by side comparison of various translations of the Beowulf vs. Mom scene (along with the...
Paula: The next best thing to being there would be to listen to the Sequentia performance on this 2 CD set. The section in question is CD 2, #4. Atlakvida (The...
But not much early harp in Boston. I can't find a teacher around here. Ed Peters ... we ... summer ... conference ... myself! ... the ... go on ... should ......
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