Music to listen to by the fire while the snow whirls outside.
Harp & Arr. by Lee Che-Yi.
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Category Archives: Classical & Jazz Music
Nov. 3rd Harp Concert in Ottawa
What: Ottawa Harp Concert November 3, 2012
Who: Lucile Hildesheim, Gordon Johnston, Acacia Lyra and Zephyr Harps
Place: St. John the Evangelist (154 Somerset West at Elgin Street)
Time: 7:30 pm / Tickets: $20
Reception following the concert
Exhibit tables of harp accessories will be in place. This concert will formally kick off the Northern Lights Harp Fest scheduled for October 2013. Registration will begin soon with a Christmas special in December. The line-up of presenters for the fest will be announced at intermission.
Info courtesy of Joanne Griffin.
Park Stickney / The HMB Trio – Suddenly Samba
Park Stickney doing what he does best: Jazz, baby! With Frédéric Folmer on bass, and Raùl Esmerode on percussion, Geneva 2008.
Harp Circle Tunes part 2
Dona Nobis Pacem is now up on the Chubby Sparrow site, you can download and listen to it here.
Along with Ode to Joy (below), we’ll be playing this at the Peterborough-Kawarthas harp circle in honour of Peace Day on Sept. 11th. For those who can’t make it, we’ll be playing with you in spirit!
All music in the Chubby Sparrow free music section is available for anyone to download and use free of charge. We just ask that you include all headers and footers in your print copies.
Harp Circle Tunes for Sept. 11th
I’ve uploaded the first harp circle tune, Ode to Joy (for multiple harps), to the Chubby Sparrow Music site:
http://www.celticharper.com/springpeeper/freemusic.html
Everyone is welcome to download the music and play with us in spirit, even if you won’t be able to attend the Peterborough-Kawarthas harp circle in person. I would just ask that you include all acknowledgements, headers and footers in the print-outs.
Music for Dona Nobis Pacem to follow shortly.
Harpo Marx, composer
Harpo Marx performing Guardian Angels (a piece he wrote) in 1945, from the movie War Bond Drive. The sound is a bit muddy, but still worth it for the rare chance to hear Harpo playing something he composed himself.
Cantina Band from Star Wars – on pedal harp!
The force is indeed strong with this one. Benjamin is now a teenager, performing internationally. You can visit his channel here.
Harper Tasche: Preludio in C
Speaking of cross-strung harps….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0uNzLV22KsCourtesy of Crescendo. Starts with Harper Tasche introducing his cross-strung harp, after which he performs the first piece of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier. Impressive as always, to hear Bach coming out of anything other than a pedal harp. Having a cross-strung of my own, I know it’s not nearly as easy to play as Harper makes it look.
Sarah Deere-Jones: By a Woodland Stream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BCPVjQqm9A
According to phantombagpiper:
“By a Woodland Stream” was written by Sarah as a ‘classical’ piece for Celtic Harp. It is in the style of Marcel Tournier from the turn of the last Century. He taught Sarahs’ Teacher, Renata Scheffel-Stein, so the piece has a link to the past. The sheet music is available at www.cornwallharpcentreshop.co.uk
July 2-12: International Harp Workshop in Italy (Registration Deadline: May 15)
July 2-12 2009
THIRD INTERNATIONAL HARP WORKSHOP
Santuario di Crea, ITALY
Jazz and improvisation course: Monika STADLER
Master classes: Gabriella BOSIO & Katerina ENGLICHOVA
Teacher in residence: Laura Sofia CARAMELLINO
Workshop fee (all prices in Euros): €300 full participants, €100 listeners
Accomodation: The Sanctuary’s convent offers comfortable recently restored rooms for ten nights at €270
(single room), €430 (double room) or €540 (triple room). Cost includes the possibility of kitchen facilities.
Within the Sanctuary complex there is a café and a restaurant.
Contacts/information: you can reach Laura Sofia Caramellino by e-mail laurasofia.caramellino@istruzione.it or
telephone (++39) 340 8420546 (late afternoon please).
The Workshop can guest no more than 12 full participants: please contact the teacher by May 15, 2009.
Information courtesy of Laura Sofia Caramellino