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Very sad to hear that, she was a great player and tutor in Germany at the first jazz fest in the late 90’s or noughties. I have one of her CD s.
It’s so wonderful to listen to, it has a restful, soothing & healing effect on me, the opposite of the difficulties playing it – there are many pieces that I am quite happy just listening to, given the luxury !!
Hi Ka, I was alerted to this last night, as it came to my personal email. Without knowing yours, all I can do is reply to harp column and attach the files, which I did, and hopefully the office will send them onto you, as I can’t see your own email on this site. I don’t think we should attach files to the site as access is unrestricted. Alison
Thank you, I’m going to enjoy looking through and gathering these. It’s difficult to introduce private pupils to orchestra, though obviously I’d usually choose easy parts, but nothing’s particularly easy on harp. I want pupils to discover and listen to a variety of works. Perhaps I can do the same with some of the cadenzas. Alison
Well whoever thought of that, I was asked politely if I could mute the harp when in a Luxembourg apartment with a wooden floor, so the tenant beneath me wrote a polite note and I couldn’t figure out how to. In my experience people can get used to harp in the background but newcomers and visitors notice repetition, so be considerate and if it clashes badly with another’s taste you’ll get aggressive behaviour which interferes with everything and your own piece of mind.
When I was working on the Danses, I think the bass notes reverberated enough to annoy a neighbor to the side when past bedtime and I’d get an angry telephone call.I am sure they will be able to supply another so give them 1 to 14 days to respond they might be out on the road or on the isle of wight.
When you say the original score for whatever instruments, I too am curious. My pupils play what I assume is an arrangement for harp in the Classical Harpist book, also with its Welsh title of Y Telynor Clasurol, for players about grade 3 standard. Useful as so much easier than Pachelbel, & just as pleasing.
Why not study Grandjany’s Arabesque, first. That’s how I learnt 3 against 2. Not a well known piece.
I’ve gone back to tuning by ear at home and sometimes with a pupil’s harp, because it’s quicker and reinforces my ear’s training, making my ears do more work. They (pupils) absorb the 4ths and 5ths routine by osmosis and I can tune in any key if I have to do something quickly. If I were going out or to orchestra then I’d probably make sure of using the electronic tuner. Interesting comments about equal temperament, a US composer who is based in Hawaii was in a coffee bar in London and asking me furtively what system I use for equal and unequal temperament and I had to explain 4 or 5 times about the need for accurate enharmonics. I think it’s his pet subject.
yes omit the 3rd last page (will check my copy for the exact page), when the opening theme is repeated,
To Musikfind1 – thank you, but when I follow your link the available parts do not show the harp part separately, as it does for the bowed string parts and the horn. It seems that the other parts are in a packaged set (incl 4,4,3,2,2) for $140. I would order the harp part in duplicate if I could and at $4 each that’s a snip, before shipping (!).
Hi Carl – my conductor friend took huge liking to it – so having obtained the parts we are starting to play through it with a local orchestra. BTW I came a cross your original harp maintenance book which a pupil acquired – very useful & I wish I could find another copy.
Well yes the part does need some preparation time, but not too difficult, I played it only once in rehearsal mode with The Rehearsal Orchestra in London and Stephen Struikshank (or Cruikshank) as the soloist – I only remember the lyrical middle part, similar construct to the violin concerto which I had performed before. I have since purchased the scores of both of these so they are to hand for the the next time. Anyone know if there is a harp part in the cello concerto, they are all related, IMHO.
