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But was it titled the Fantasy on Black….for woodwind choir or A Symphonic Prelude on Black….?
The Fantasy does indeed have harp…I have the part. It is for just woodwinds and harp.
The Prelude on you tube shows people playing brass, etc….so I’m figuring it’s not the same arrangement.This is a composition by Alfred Reed for band. It is for woodwind choir and harp. The arrangement is quite weird.
You don’t say if you are buying a lever harp or pedal…or what type of playing you do.
I play pedal harp and bought my 1971 LH15 as walnut finish without decoration and my 1989 Etude also with walnut finish.
They are both shown on my website:
http://www.WeddingHarpMusic.yolasite.comI prefer that finish because it looks more like the wood of the strings in orchestra.
I don’t care for the natural wood finish because to me it looks anemic and like they just forgot to finish it…but many people prefer the natural, so I’m probably in the minority. At the time I bought my LH15, they always decorated the soundboards, and I actually had to argue with the guy to get them to leave it plain.These are some I play a lot.
Phantom of the Opera. I play the theme, Think of me, All I ask of you, Angel of Music, and Music of the night.
Love Story
Lara’s Theme
A time for us
Ice Castles
You raise me up
From this moment on
Come back to Sorrento
O Sole Mio
Don’t cry for me, Argentina
Wind beneath my Wings
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Some Enchanted EveningWhat a great performance! (they didn’t show the harp enough, tho)
I wondered about the strings. Our band has at times had cello and bass, but never fiddles.In fact, when my teacher wanted to buy a new harp, he felt obliged to buy a Salzedo model, even though he DID NOT LIKE the style!
That’s how powerful the Salzedo charisma was (still is for some people).
I wouldn’t play a Salzedo model if someone GAVE it to me. Neither do I play the technique.Back a few centuries ago when I was young, I had the impression that the harp world was dominated by men….Grandjany, Zabaleta, Salzedo, Osian Ellis…all European.
I think Women’s Lib had something to do with women getting out to play more, as in other fields of work. They no longer wanted to stay home and clean the house, and gadgets were becoming widespread…an automatic washer and dryer…a self-defrosting refrigerator (yep, it took a lot of time and bother to defrost), i.e. labor-saving devices that freed up time for women. (The countertop microwave oven was first introduced in 1967 by the Amana Corporation, according to Wikipedia.)
Marisa Robles, harpist
Mine is an ancient 1965 vinyl (it’s in CD now)…Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge.It looks like the American Harp Society is somehow linked to Anderson insurance now.
No one else on the forum is an AHS member? That seems odd.
I somehow got lost in the transition when Goodman merged with AJG, but it looks like Anderson is the one we use now?I always tell them the current cost, as per the insurance company replacement cost. People are really ignorant about harps, so I like to help out by educating them.
