The 450th Birthday Bash: Dowland in the 21st century

  John Dowland, the poet of the lute and recognised as the greatest English composer of lute music and lute songs was born in 1563 (d,.1626), which makes 2013 the 450th anniversary of his birth – a milestone that is slipping quietly by with barely a lute being tuned – except for a group of Sydney musicians who have…