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The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by ...

The lute is the most intimately expressive of musical instruments. A descendant of the lyre with which Orpheus mythically tamed the wild beasts, the lute returned to Europe more than a millennium ago ...

Jozef Van Wissem is doing battle with tradition — armed with a 24-string lute and a bottleneck slide. “When I do this at a show, the first people who leave are the classical people,” he says. “They ...

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

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 ...