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Harper-singer brings the music of first millennium to life
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Harper-singer brings the music of first millennium to life
By TOM STRINI
Journal Sentinel music critic
Sunday, October 15, 2000
More than a thousand years ago, a harper traveled the Rhine
valley, singing songs and telling stories in German or Latin to the
monks and priests who were the intellectual elite of his day. That
harper's songs found their way into an anthology later copied by
monks of the Canterbury Cathedral. The manuscript is now in the
Cambridge Universi...