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the point. 

Now that I've been caught up with the latest lecture, I see better that the real strength of the linked series is the mounting passion, something which comes across best, understandably enough, in the flesh (especially in that beautiful hall, with memorials to great public speakers all around outside, which seems to ask for noble rhetoric). If I'm not speaking out of turn--and possibly repeating myself at that, since I think I touched on this at the beginning--I would imagine that the problem would be your having to decide whether or not to transform, or even "translate," the text so as to get an equivalent roll on the page; also, perhaps, how to make quite properly poetic, even (also properly) opinionated, "artist's" remarks stand (out?) as such, so that they do not read, instead of sound, at all reckless as "history" (and I emphasize that in your delivery in the Sanders Theater this distinction comes through very nicely). I don't know what to "recommend," if it even were my place to do so, except just to keep the distinction in mind. It might even be worth asking the Harvard people, if it isn't already treated in the prefaces, whether there might not have been any similar challenge in the other "non-literary" Norton lectures that became books, Ben Shawn's (right?) and Stravinsky's Six Lectures on the Poetic of Music are the ones I know of (and in the latter case thee is the question of Robert Kraft's role as I. S.'s literary arm). 

I hope this is not totally unhelpful, wordy as it may be. If you wanted to ask me anything more specific about the texts, I would be happy to respond, with the qualification that, even though "Rebaissance and Baroque" was my "field," and I love the material per se, I have been away from the, let's say, more tediously specialist literature for a long time (15 years, maybe), always having appreciated the more qualitative treatments, even the belles-lettristic ones, more anyway. 

Anyway, let me just say thanks again for letting me read the lectures I couldn't hear, since I leave Cambridge, as I may have said, Wednesday afternoons. I have really enjoyed them.

Sincerely,
Joe Masheck

P.S. 
Can I hold onto the xeroxes for a while? 
Let's say - if you need them back, just say so.