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Saul,
Could you please give me the reference to the article in the AHS journal teacher’s forum you referred to above?
Who need the competitions any way!It is never right judging.its good only for an experience of learning a big repertoire by heart.Music is not important there-it’s sport-faster and boring
Id have to strongly disaggree with you, sverdlov. Competitions are not only a good way to get students to practice more, but it gives great soloistic experience which could be invaluable to the student’s performing career, if they so choose to go into the performing feild.
I aggree with both of you Carl and Saul. I think its a great notion to have the levels judged by experience, but i dont think it would work. I unfortunately can’t relate, since i started when i was 9, but i DEFINETELY see where youre coming from.
Carl, you keep saying you’re not slamming another method, and then you turn around and do it! It’s not becoming to you. If you really don’t understand the Salzedo method after all these years, then I suggest you take some lessons with Emily Halpern Lewis, just so you grasp our concepts and why they work. It will be most enlightening. I’m not saying to change your technique, just to understand ours and stop attacking it.
The ABC of Harp Playing by Lawrence and Salzedo will help you with adapting piano music. Not all music can be adapted. It takes a lot of time and skill. He’s not being very fair, and must not know much about the harp. There are plenty of orchestra parts for harp. Good pieces to start on are by Russian composers like Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky. I published a list of harp parts arranged by difficulty in the AHS Journal Teacher’s Forum a few years ago. It would be good to give a copy to the conductor.
The Enchanted Isle was published by Lyra, and performed beautifully by Prof. Elizabeth Richter at the AHS conference of 2004 in Philadelphia. That performance should be available through the AHS sometime soon. It’s a wonderful piece with a great history. Salzedo made many appearances with it and it made his name professionally.
I recommend the Enchanted Isle by Salzedo, the Berezowsky Concerto, the Dussek Concerto, the Tailleferre Concertino, the Saint-Saens Morceau de Concert, the Dohnanyi Concertino, the Virgil Thomson Concertino, the Harry Somers Suite for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, and many others.
I think you should get the Carlos Salzedo transcription and compare it to the original. It’s very interesting what he did with the left hand, and says something important about what sounds better on the harp. I think it’s the best transcription available, and it’s not expensive. IMS has it, and other dealers should also. It doesn’t have the easiest fingerings, but I have some alternates for the 3rd page if you need, but his can work.
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I placed my harpist daughter in her elementary school orchestra after she had been playing harp for one year.
Any good harp teacher can work with your son. I don’t think there’s anything special or great about the Suzuki method. The Suzuki harp book I picked up was embarrassingly bad. One of the worst beginner harp books I’ve seen.
Isn’t it an even bigger problem when they’re over-committed to other activities like riding, skating, and have no practice time?
It seems to me that all these sites want is to take our hard-earned money, and try to monopolize the market on teaching. Do you realize how much money they take in if they can get a few thousand people to pay them $100 a year?! And do they document the responses their teachers get? Probably not. And you’re out the money. I think teachers should be found in traditional, human contact ways, or local advertising. Don’t you? And why aren’t more people making referrals to each other?
I have 1st-degree reiki training, among others. I once used it for an audition in which I played the Introduction and Allegro (Ravel). They said it had a very nice flow. It helped me learn to connect all the notes. People who attend my recitals have told me they found it healing, and I’ve noticed when singers have it in them. It adds to performance, but it’s not music.
