Lute for the Hoi Polloi

You all know how I feel about the lute. I've blogged about it often enough. And though I've heard your pleas for moderation and forbearance, it's been difficult - I should say, very difficult - to keep my lute-thiasm in check. It's just that the world needs more lute. We all know that, whether we care to admit it. The paucity of lute music is unconscionable, do you hear me, unconscionable. How can a civilized society... it's just that... what I mean to say is... man's inhumanity to man... unconscionable.

The. World. Needs. More. Lute. Period.

Evidently, great minds think alike. That world-renowned lutenist, Gordon Matthew Sumner, otherwise known as Sting, has an album forthcoming in October of John Dowland lute music. Of course, we all know Dowland was court lutenist to Elizabeth I back during the Renaissance and not a half-bad singer/songwriter. Everyone knows Dowland's best-known song, "Flow My Tears":

Flow, my teares, fall from youre springs,
Exiled for ever, let mee mourn
Where night's black bird hir sad infamy sings,
There let mee live forlorn...

*sigh*

Sting. Bringing his lute to the masses, singing. Mark the date. October 2006.

When the world becomes a better place.
K-