"When the first notes of [the music] threaded their way into my consciousness, they seemed to come from inside me…music wound its way through me as sound turned pure sensation." —The New York Times on ...
Jozef van Wissem would like to open our ears to the gorgeous sonorities of the lute. But he feels his instrument has what he calls "a bad image: You stand under a balcony and serenade a lady, and then ...