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Streamed live on Jul 19, 2015
The first event of our new program “MUSICIANS’ ROUND TABLE,” hosted by Jeffrey Goodman, featured an interview with internationally acclaimed English lutenist Ben Salfield. It was broadcast via You Tube live on Sunday July 19th, at 12 noon Los Angeles, 3 PM New York, 8 PM London time.

There is a wide-ranging discussion of a host of topics, including Renaissance and Baroque improvisation, the differences and similarities of guitar, lute and lutar, Ben’s upcoming concerts and publications, and video performances of Ben playing both Renaissance and Baroque music on the lutar

Index of interview topics and time line of content:

Welcome to the Musicians’ Round Table by Jeffrey Goodman (0:04)

Introducing Ben Salfield (0:56)

Ben plays John Dowland’s “My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe” on lutar. (3:50)

Elizabethan lute music titles (7:50)

How Ben began playing the lute (9:30)

Origins of the creation of the lutar (10:52)

Structure and acoustic characteristics of the lutar (12:35)

Modern renaissance in lute playing (14:48)

Ten course guitars compared to lutar (15:20)

Bach’s fascination with all musical instruments (16:10)

Musical evenings with Bach and Sylvius Leopold Weiss (18:23)

The mechanism of the peg heads of the lutar (21:44)

Ben answers an audience question (23:00)

How Ben started in playing the lute and how Julian Bream inspired his work (24:00)

Julian Bream’s California master classes (27:00)

Ben’s teaching and master classes (27:42)

Ben’s renaissance lute shown and discussed, movable frets and other aspects of its construction (30:57)

Ben’s upcoming summer European tour and master classes (36:00)

Playing renaissance lute music on guitar (39:40)

Ben speaks on the art of improvisation in renaissance and baroque music (40:10)

Screen share of images and information on Ben’s books (44:25)

Discussion and brief tour of Ben’s website (46:00)
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For a direct link to Ben Salfield's Website, here is the web address: http://salfieldben.wix.com/lutelutar