Monday, February 26, 2007 - Sting

I was in Milan with friends in December (see previous entry at www.lifeingerm.blogspot.com) and Sting was playing a free concert in the church where DaVinci's "Last Supper" is painted on the wall. I got a bit of a craving for seeing him since we just missed the free concert. Lo and behold he was coming to Munich so I got some tickets and stuck them in Bernd's Christmas stocking.

He is touring with another man named Edin Karamozov, a lute player from Bosnia and an extraordinary musician. They are playing the music of John Downland, a composer and lute player in the 17th century. The music is probably somewhat of an acquired taste, but much of it was beautiful and some of it sounded appropriate for a funeral. He also played a couple of Sting tunes, most memorable was "Fields of Gold" which was perfect with the lutes.

At the beginning he even spoke a little German to the crowd, but they certainly understood English as at one point during an instrumental he stopped, looked at Edin and said, "I'm lost" and the crowd cracked up. Interesting evening, interesting music, and now I'd also like to see him this year play with the Police.