Word: harpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Back Door Angels" is a well-arranged piece featuring the impressive electric guitar work of Martin Barre interspersed with melodious embellishments like harp glissandos and synthesizer frivolities. While Barre's guitar predominates throughout, it is especially interesting during his solo, which contains three strains, each of which ends with a rather long hold and then gives way to a variation on the preceding strain. The effect is a dynamic one in that just as one expects the composition to end, it returns, invigorated...
Mozart put some of the lost irony back into the music, and it could be argued--although perhaps not too convincingly--that having just the music makes some of the ironies clearer. There are beautifully ambiguous moments like the quiet, harp-like string passage-a rebuke to the Count, a relief to the Countess--when Susanna comes out of the closet in the second-act finale. And director Earl Kim's simple conducting and quiet, steady beat make it easier to see why the citizens of Prague, wiser than the Vienna court which accorded Figaro only a moderate success, adapted...
...ancient Celtic folk ballads and medieval dances into a modern framework. The heavy alternate-measure syncopation and simple repeating melodies lost none of their traditional mournful quality when interpreted on electric guitar and percussion. What the music gained in the switch was familiarity. His extended solos on the Irish harp and flute were beautiful and exotic: When placed against a background of more recognizable notes from organ and guitar, the unfamiliar harmonies were softened and became more accessible...
...country life--the mood is like sitting on the porch in summer whittling and watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel, a rhythm guitar and Jennings on lead. The tunes are written by and large by Billy Joe Shaver--one of the best--and they're basically macho stuff, about outlaws and boozers and a woman associated...
Sharon Zukerman, flute; Alice Norton, harp. Works of J.S. Bach, Kodaly, Donizetti, Persichetti, Berio. Free. Sunday, March...