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Thanks Pat,
I would love to hear that recording! I tend to stalk ebay for old recordings, and have found many great recordings of Mimi Allen that way, but I will put the Taka Kling and Louisville Symphony on my list.
I’ve actually
I prefer La Source, its a real goal kicker, a good encore piece. It’s one of those – in some ways – cliched harp pieces. Light, frothy and impossibly romantic…but it works, is finely crafted
That is a hilarious and awesome story, David. Now those initial comments were unmistakably rude. Good grief. That is so great how you pulled that off and won them over.
I will add here that i don’t think people are typically being deliberately disrespectful with such comments. I think what is going on is that the harp is something that grabs people’s attention. Most people aren’t used to seeing harp and harpists. They take notice and comment. The exchange is usually so quick that they don’t put much thought into the comment. Those types of jokes are the most common and quick to come by. It’s just another way of saying, “Oh wow, a harp”. Doctors and lawyers don’t get the comments because their professions do not grab attention in the same way.
Hey Basel, I’ve been wondering how you are doing. I will certainly email you soon.
I just got home from a marvelous gig, but did encounter all the comments. Here they are:
“If you played violin, you’d already be home.”
“What is that?… Don’t drop it”It’s okay though, I get my satisfaction when I see the look of confusion an mild panic on their faces as they dodge out of my way as I forge through the crowd with my great big harp, streamrolling down the sidewalk with that steely, determined look in my eyes. :oO
Thanks, Mary. I was looking around a bit as well and was disappointed to find very little. I think I will buy the soundtrack and transcribe it. The book and movie mean a great deal to me. It would make a great summer project. I would like to make a suite of the themes for flute and harp.
Then I made the mistake of getting curious, and scrounging around some more. I hope this helps, Julie – here’s very nearly the only vocal sheet music I could find for:
BRIGHT EYES
Book Condition: Condition: G+
Seller ID: 22410
Composed Mike Batt (Picture): Featured in film ‘Watership Down’ by Art Garfunkel (Picture): Sheet Music:
sheet music song voice/piano music
Price = 4.00 GBP
http://www.musicbythescore.co.uk/si/22410.html
http://www.biblio.com/search.php?dealer_id=58211&keyisbn=bright+eyes+by+mike+batt&stage=1
Bookseller : Music by the Score [X] All words : bright eyes by mike batt [X]
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BRIGHT EYES
Composed Mike Batt (Picture): Featured in film ‘Watership Down’ by Art Garfunkel (Picture): Sheet Music: … (more information)
Offered by Music by the Score (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
Did some more scrounging around the ‘net – guess Angela Morely is the composer of the Watership Down film score, and that Hansson was inspired by the book. Here’s from her site:
http://www.angelamorley.com/site/credits.htm
chamber music arrangement:
“Kehaar’s Theme for alto sax & piano”
contact: underscore@angelamorley.com
She’s in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to her website
I suppose this idiodic comment is my own, but often when moving my harp with cover on people will ask, “What is that?”. I tell them it is a giant oven mit that i am using to bake giant cookies. :o)
Thanks, everyone, for all of your comments and advice! I actually found a teacher – for a month- and then she had to move away. Kinda figures, but it was nice while it lasted. Anyway, thanks so much and good luck!
Try writing to Watership composer Bo Hansson’s “Silence” record label:
http://www.silence.se/default_eng.asp (English version of the Swedish site.)
Main Office in Koppom:
Silence Records,
ATTN: Eva Wilke
Naved, 670 41 Koppom
Sweden
email: eva@silence.se
Phone: +46571 150 50
Mobile: +4670 577 27 10
Bo Hansson’s website
http://www.silence.se/bohansson/
Recordlabel/Press:
Silence Records
And ask what’s available. DO please tell what results.
BTW, the CD of the Watership Down soundtrack is available , new or used, on Amazon.com. If you are good at melodic dictation, try taking down the tunes by ear and making your own arrangements if no fake books nor lead sheets are for sale. But maybe, just maybe Hansson might have a tunebook available?
I’ve danced in the morning when the Ren Faire was begun…
There I was at the Maryland Renaissance Festival as a street musician (subbing for a guit-picker) in full skirted garb with a tiny harp snugged in a knotted shawl to play standing up (this was pre-harpsicles), when fiddler Cathy Palmer says, “Oh by the way, Mary, we have a dance routine for this set of tunes..” “We WHAT!?! says I?” Sure, says she: step, step, step, turn twice, step, step, step, slide right, slide left, repeat… All this instruction while jamming on dance tunes with half the harp tuned in one key, the other half in the upcoming key, finding the chords on the fly by ear.
Not quite like Monty Python’s Yellowbeard (stagger, stagger, crawl, crawl), but it sure felt like it at the time.
Fun, though. Yes, all those lessons at junior high cotillion came in handy. You never know what will be useful, you never know where your career might take you. Being able to count, having a good sense of rhythm & timing from dancing – perhaps think of it as cross-training for musicians.
