Word: harped
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...whether through ignorance or acute perception (is there really always a difference?), Touré’s fabled guitar and Diabaté’s kora (which is, to my understanding, a stringed Malian instrument rather like a harp) come together much more wholly than I had expected. The result of this cooperation has an undeniably island flavor, belying Diabaté’s familial ties to the island of Guinea and offsets the Malian traditions both musicians share...
Free cone day, Harvard Book Store, old man with the handmade one-string harp, 7-11, vaguely ethnic street festivals...
...composer, Lim won't apply a sweetener to her music. In the world of modern orchestral arrangements, this hovers somewhere between the strange and the familiar - both lush and harsh, with the ancient sounds of the Japanese harp giving way, in one piece, to the ringing of tuned glass bottles. In the shifting tones, a faint harmony seems just out of reach. Lim likens the effect to "birdsong beginning inside the egg," a phrase she quotes from the 13th century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. Even classical audiences can find Lim's music obscure. "The point for Liza is not about...
...grew up in Hiroshima, the eldest daughter in a family of five. She took lessons on the harp and in folk dance and ballet. "I loved to dance. My dancing made my parents happy." Like all Japanese young women at that time, Numata anticipated a life of marriage and children, and she was engaged to marry a soldier. The wedding was planned for some time shortly after Aug. 8, 1945, when her fiancé was expected home on leave...
Musically, the play fared slightly better. Though Mark P. Musico ’07 largely lived up to his name in his music direction, though the accompaniment, like the performances onstage, was uneven. In particular, the strings, with the exception of the synthesized harp, did a strikingly poor job, giving some of the orchestral moments a lurching, funeral cadence distinctly reminiscent of Charles Ives’s more dissonant work...