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I enjoyed the Asturias and the Recuerdos….I’m really a guitarist just lurking here because I haven’t gotten my harp yet….first time I’ve heard them on the harp…I have recordings of the guitar versions…
Hi KreigAlbeniz travel a lot and made “presents” for ex. to the Town Hall of that new city where he was. When he arrived to Oviedo the capital of Asturias gave to… the people that score. He noticed that that will be an error and tried to rectified. He gave then another title to that music: Leyenda (Leyend). Then is a score with two “opus”. But… was late. The music became a sucess on the guitar of Francisco T��rrega with the original title of Asturias. Late. Albeniz prefer the guitar version than his own piano version because the… feeling… (I don t know in english).
On the harp, I try to go on the guitar tempo, first and the guitar arrangement. On the piano score, there is a silence on the right hand in each chord because the distance on the piano… is very difficult to play it well. The guitar don t has that problem and, the harp, I think that is ok too… I think.
Zabaleta was born in Guipuzcoa, Pa��s Vasco.
I have to go to the school to learn english yet.
Hi Saul
I d recorded that The Beatles on the harp in April, 2004. A few months latter, Jim Palmer also done it in your country. More info: http://harpisticpublications.comI will change that fhoto…
Thank you, Saul
Hi Rosemary
My english… I m sorry…
I will change that fhoto … I know what you mean.
But is interesting what you said “where you are playing a harmonic”. I wasn t really. I play all the time with my fingers … looking to the sky. Another way to play: your left hand is all the time ready to stop the sound.
Thank you Rosemary
Hi Kreig
In simple words because I don��t speak english really. Only a few words. I��m sorry.
Asturias is a region at the north of Spain, but that music (chords, etc) is of the South (Andalucia) you know? … flamenco, etc. That great harpist who recorded that (died 1993) borned in the North and wasn��t easy for him change his mind … (I don��t know who to say that). Is better the Zoraida Avila version from Venezuela.
I��ll use that Beatles fhoto in the new beatles album (The Beatles on the harp-2) that will be ready in few days in that site. At home page I will put another, don��y worry…
Thank you very much
Hi Dan,
I really like the look of your harp, the beautiful wood on the soundboard is rather snazzy and the sound it very clear and crisp – and your playing is very clean…so bravo! And I find that
Oh dear!! Could the banging on the walls have been the quality of my playing? Or all the 20th century repertoire that I used to play….hmmmmm. Maybe I need to learn more frillies…..
Indeed…it would be a bummer to lug it all that way and not get to play it. I’ve taken my lever harp on holidays, but played it outdoors..which is a amusing since I flat refuse to do outdoor gigs! But putting that aside….I used to live in an apartment, and found that although although people would play their telly (tv) quite loud at night, and not worry about hearing that, they would get their knickers in a twist if you practised. I therefore developed the habit of practising the the telly on and then I would not get any complaints, but if it was harp alone, yep they’d be banging on the walls even at quite respectable times of the day.
If its summer holidays, take a lever harp and go sit under a tree in a park and do your practise there. You could even busk! (joke!) If you don’t have
One time I did have to leave a pedal harp in a hotel, on an interstate trip where my car broke down, and I left it in the hotel office chained (with a bike chain that had a plastic covering!) to the safe that was bolted to the floor and surrounded by cushions and other pieces of furniture so no one can bash into it!
Other than that I take a lever harp with me on holidays…
Hope this helps.
Yes, well, I think that our John just likes to stir the pot…he knows the answers already…sigh….so mysterious, so naughty……
Yes, I always find John’s questions interesting. They always tend to be a bit on the naughty side, and he rarely discusses what he says in the intial post, as I think he could add some very interesting & useful
Well, it’s not me either! I’m usually asleep at the times he posts if it’s US time. I do enjoy his wild stories!
If I ever get around to writing my horror novel, I’ll work black Satanic Troubadors into it somehow….
Sr. Canino:
Mi esposo es de Paraguay y yo de Puerto Rico. Recientemente trajo un arpa y desearia saber en donde se puede estudiar el arpa en P.R. Gracias de antemano por su informacion.I’m curious, what are the techniques used to find your way around the harp when you can’t see?
Carla
