Word: harped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every time Gillian V. Benet '87 wants to transport her six-foot tall harp from her room in Lowell House to Memorial Hall, where she practices, she has to hire a station wagon taxi to make the quarter-of-a-mile trip...
...hard for me when the harp isn't in my room," Benet says, "I get the urge to play all the time--even in the middle of the night--and I can't always...
Benet, a French Civilization concentrator, has played the harp for eleven years. As one of the 3000 members of the American Harp Society, she has won the Society's triennial National Competition twice in her age division...
...small number of committed harpists to play with and learn from is only one of the difficulties involved with taking up the complex instrument. The harp, with its 46 strings and seven foot pedals, has only existed in its modern form since the late nineteenth century, so only a limited supply of old music is available. Some masters, like Handel and Mozart, have composed music for a more primitive version of the harp, but Benet explains that repertoire can be a problem because "a lot of composers write their token harp concerto and that...
Although owning a harp can be expensive (Benet's family also had to buy a station wagon to transport the harp when she began playing it), its size can be an asset. Benet says, "sometimes, when I'm on tour, I use the harp case as a dressing room. It also doubles as a closet for my long dresses...