Harper-singer brings the music of first millennium to life

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: October 15, 2000| Author: TOM STRINI | Copyright information

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...