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“When I do this at a show, the first people who leave are the classical people.”

Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide ...

‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again

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’ ...

Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide

The minimalist composer and collaborator with Jim Jarmusch is electrifying a 24-string relic — and scandalizing classical ...
New Haven Register

Joseph Iadone, a master on the lute, departs this life with little fanfare

And another local institution, Jack s Luncheonette, closes after 35-year runWhen Joseph Iadone, one of the world s most renowned lute players, died six weeks ago, only four people came to his funeral ...