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When I find time after practising my orchestra parts, I am working on Songs of Nymphs by Marjan Mozetich, and Valse by Arnold Bax. Great pieces! I’m also working on my own pieces, especially my newest composition, Summer in Vancouver, which is still in its first draft.
My daughter studied her instrument with two teachers and derived tremendous benefit from their different approaches. They were friends and colleagues, so there was no undermining of the other. It sounds like your two teachers are covering very different material. The situation could work very well if there is no resulting confusion.
Marjan Mozetich wrote Songs of Nymphs for Erica Goodman and it has since become very popular among harpists in Canada. It is absolutely gorgeous.
Are you doing the whole ballet or the suites? There is one very pianistic bit which is, in fact, doubled by the piano, so it can be somewhat simplified. You’ll know it when you see it. In the ballet, the Gavotte has one tricky little bit. Let me know if you are doing the whole ballet, and I can send you the pages I am referring to if you need them.
I am so glad you enjoyed the 11th WHC! The blues group was headed by Brenda Dor-Groot, with local Vancouver musicians Laurence Mollerup, Mike Michalkow and Bryan Binnema. We tried to get all the harp manufacturers we could, of course, but sometimes it isn’t convenient for them. I would love to hear more feedback from people who went!
You can’t beat the orchestra harp part for the Magic Fire Music by Wagner. The Debussy Danses are excellent for this purpose as well. Pierne’s Impromptu-Caprice is another good one. There are innumerable orchestra excerpts with crazy pedalings: i.e.Salome’s Dance by R. Strauss.
I love David Ice’s arrangements of Longer Than, by Dan Fogelberg, and Fields of Gold by Sting. They are both love songs and highly appropriate for weddings. Ashokan Farewell (Jay Ungar, 1982) was used as a farewell or goodnight at the annual Ashokan fiddle and dance camps before its use as the theme from the documentary on the Civil War by Ken Burns. It is gorgeous.
Basel is on facebook. He can’t play his harp right now because he left the city and could not take it with him. He is horrified by all the violence and is very depressed.
I practised the section at “H” as a fingered scale but the tempo was so fast there that i decided to do it as a one-fingered gliss this time. I also have my own edited version of the one-harp part. The conductor was very pleased with the result and made a point of congratulating me. I told him that I had had to make some changes to make the part workable, and he smiled and said that he was aware that this was a necessity, especially for this piece.
There’s a lovely quadruple harp concerto called Dream, Light, Movement by Obradinovic. The Belgrade Harp Quartet will be playing it at the World Harp Congress in Vancouver.
Isabelle Perrin is going to be doing a master class on Bernard Andrès at the World Harp Congress. We’re all looking forward to it!
I checked Beatrice Schroeder Rose’s book, and it is not in there. I have also looked in the Renié method book and I don’t see it in there, either. I would appreciate it if you could tell me which page it is on. It doesn’t appear in the section on Different Heights of the hands on the Strings. Again, if I have missed it, please let me know where it is. I am a bit busy organizing the World Harp Congress, so I don’t have time to look for the other books, but that is why I asked this forum. It’s fast and easy, and usually you get a polite response.
