Hello, Anna - a wonderful concert. Besides your amazing versatility, sei bravissima!! At the end (about 21:00) when you played the plucked lyre, you reminded me of something I recently learned. I was curious about how a similarly ancient instrument was created, the Pipes of Pan. It has a lot to do with lust, love, or desire, as the case may be. The following is more or less the Wiki account: Pan and the nymph Syrinx (or Syringa) One of the most famous myths of Pan concerns the origins of his distinctive musical instrument. Syringa was a beautiful water nymph of Arcadia, daughter of the river god Ladon. One day, returning from hunting, she met Pan. To escape his importuning, Syringa ran away without listening to the god's compliments. She ran through the woods until she found a reed, and as she prayed she was transformed into a reed. When the wind blew through the reeds, a plaintive melody was heard. The god, still infatuated, and unable to identify which reed Syringa had been transformed into, took some and cut seven pieces of decreasing length (some versions claim nine) and joined them side by side. Thus Pan created the musical instrument that bore the name of his beloved Syringa. From then on Pan was rarely seen without it; the instrument is also known as a pan flute. (We derive the word for syringe - whether medical or for basting - from this myth. It also echoes the story of Apollo and Daphne, in which Daphne was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the clutches of Apollo.)
Being totally overwhelmed when I saw you I forgot to take a photo together, which would have been a nice thing. It was so good to see you, enjoy the doc!
