What’s on your music stand? Summer 2012

[Jerusha Amado]

Hi everyone!

How are things going on the harp front?

[sherry-lenox]

Naderman Sonata #1, Tournier Six Noels #1, Grandjany Le Bon Petite Roi d’ Aventot – please forgive fractured French, and The Trees They Grow So High and The Rocky Road to Dublin, both in anticipation of having something under my fingers for Somerset.

[Jerusha Amado]

Hi Sherry,

I’m familiar with “Six Noels” and “Le Bon”.

[sherry-lenox]

Hi Jerusha- I really love everything I’m doing. I’m just doing the first Noel now and may add one other.

The Naderman Sonata sounds great on the Wurlitzer, and I know how lucky I am to have two pedal harps in my house! The character of the piece fits hand in glove with such a beautiful looking harp.

Interesting about Noel #5. I’ll have to ask about it in my next lesson. Thanks for the tip!

[cc-chiu]

I’m working on:

Danses d’ automne #4 (finally finished #3 a while ago!!!!)

The Minstrel’s Adieu (I can almost play all the notes – it still needs a lot of polishing)

Handel harp concerto for lever harp (it’s really awesome to finally play it!)

Things are going quite well, but not on the lessons front… I think I need to start looking for another teacher because our schedules don’t really match. And affordable AND good teachers are quite rare – and then there’s the issue of telling my current teacher I’m going to stop lessons with them… but my next lesson isn’t even planned yet so I’ll have a few months to think about it.

[deb-l]

been playing the harp for pleasure more than to progress.

[jessica-wolff]

Aura Lee (which I’ve also played on bowed psaltery and guitar), Sephardic songs, blues for lever harp.

There’d be more, but I have repotting to do and umpteen variations of “Old Joe Clark” for banjo.

[Jerusha Amado]

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[Jerusha Amado]

Hi Deb,

I admire the fact that you’re going to tackle more memorization.

[Jerusha Amado]

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[deb-l]

I broke a wire on the Dusty Friday night Jerusha and have been in withdrawals ever since!

[Jerusha Amado]

If memory serves, I think that you have a bubinga.

[sherry-lenox]

Jerusha, have you played a Koa Dusty? There was one at Somerset last year that was a dream, but they’re not making Koa harps now, and I’m trying to decide whether I’d like the Bubinga harp as much.

Forgot that yours was Bubinga Deb L. Yummy!

Somewhere, I have a recording of Harry Belafonte singing God Bless the Child. Yummy TWICE!

[deb-l]

thanks Sherry and Jerusha, bubinga is as stunning in tone as it is visually.

[Jerusha Amado]

Hi Sherry,

I haven’t had the privilege of test driving a koa harp.

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