Word: harped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of concerts at the Germanic Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
...heard the harp in recital can imagine the amazing volume of tone it produces. To look at it, with its aesthetically-shaped frame, and its rows of fragile strings, one would think the best it could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles, whereas in reality, when skillfully played, it can compete with the organ in fullness and richness of tone. The combination of the harp and organ, which I have never heard, should certainly be an unusual one, if not downright peculiar. It is hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with...
...music itself: The program opens with organ music by Bach, the Prelude and St. Anne Fugue in E-flat, (so-called because of its similarity to a well-known hymn-tune of the same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ...
...need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles. We need not harp on failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstruction. We should remember that the peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of 'pacification' which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today...
...Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...