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...Early Music held the first concert of its 18th season in the courtyard of the Fogg--the first time the space has been used by the society. It proved to be the ideal setting for the "Chamber Music by Candlelight" concert entitled "Harp and Double Harp," featuring acclaimed harpist Andrew Lawrence-King...
...chimes of the antique clock housed in the Fogg which insisted on making a considerable amount of noise every half-hour. The harp is a very beautiful, simple and intimate instrument. There is no bow or any other intermediary between the player and the instrument, and the harpist actually seems to be embracing the instrument most of the time. The music itself was harmonious and regal, conjuring images of royal courts, Shakespearean plays and village fairs. Especially enjoyable was "Gagliarda," by Carlo Gesualdo, which according to Lawrence-King contains "entirely enough ornamentation," and was filled with trills and other complex...
...world never really evokes sympathy. This man, irate Ira Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married a Communist is a tragicomedyabout how that attitude didn't really work out.The emotional blindness of this character,however, prevents...
...real life, the big, bright, global, wired economy means that offices in Washington that once skimped on holiday decorations have hired a singing harpist for the lobby. There are 50 kinds of mustard at the supermarket, and at the Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
...evening started with a Pregame Pep Concert by Deborah Henson-Conant, a jazz harpist and Lawrence Professor of Chemistry William N. Lipscomb, who played the clarinet...