I have been asked to perform in a program with a water theme. They suggested a song called Niagra Falls. What other water related pieces can you think of? La source, obviously. What else?
It’s a piano piece, but Debussy’s “The Sunken Cathedral” is very watery! Salzedo made a transcription for multiple harps…don’t know if there’s a solo harp transcription out there…
What about one or more of the ‘Six Pièces’ by Jacques Ibert? They include Matin Sur L’Eau, En Barque Le Soir and Reflects Dans L’Eau, and Ballade sounds like a river, too…..
Wow, thank you for all the fabulous ideas! I think this could turn into a very nice program. It was great to see the link of the archive at BYU! I didn’t realize how many pieces they have archived.
And please don’t forget that soggy old chestnut, “The Mermaid’s Song on the Banks of the River at the Spring in the Forest while Bathing” by Jan Fcedekl, the well-known Fredonian harp master who was Harpo Marx’s teacher in Animal Crackers.
Karl Oberthuer’s “Play of the Waves” is very pretty, with two melodies intertwined, one in the RH and one in the LH. The RH melody is in the thumb. It’s in the album “Wedding Cake” with the green cover.
I was in Betty Paret’s Second Harp Book, and happened to see it has a collection of short pieces, “Three Sea Sketches”: “Dolphin in the Waves,” “The Bell Buoy Rings,” and “The White Gull’s Flight.” Pretty and not very difficult.