When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

A chitarrone is a kind of extended lute where it has bass strings, enormously long, connected to the basic lute body. How it’s used: It was an instrument that was invented for this music. It has no ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...

The public is invited to a free recital featuring Edward Martin playing the lute at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 in the College of St. Scholastica Music Hall, room 3625 of Tower Hall. The program ...

LATEST musi-cal sensation in town: The Aguilar Lute Quartet. About a year ago, Senor Segovia arrived with his guitar and his footstool and became one of the ornaments of our concert halls. His manager ...

Last month, volatile little Composer Ernest Bloch gave Portland, Ore. music lovers his best advice on how to behave at a concert (TIME, March 7). “Don’t be inhibited,” he hollered happily from the ...

Music in Small Spaces, sponsored by the Beaverton Arts Commission, is presenting Ronn McFarlane in a solo lute concert on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the Beaverton City Library Auditorium (12375 SW ...

Lute player and guitarist Élodie Brzustowski talks about the challenges of the two-metre long theorbo, rediscovering guitar ...