Word: harps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were out in force to welcome Liberace to Madison Square Garden. While boxing fans withdrew trembling to the shelter of their favorite saloons, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 jammed the Garden; about 80% were women.* With a roll of drums, the crash of a gong, and a harp glissando, Liberace bounced onto the stage, wearing a snowy-white dress suit (later he changed into a gold lamé jacket...
...While Keats was beginning shy pleasantries with Fanny Brawne in Hampstead, he was also conducting a more full-bodied relationship with Mrs. Jones at her house in Gloucester Street−"a very tasty sort of place," Keats called it, "with Books, Pictures, a bronze statue of Buonaparte, Music, aeolian Harp; a Parrot, a Linnet, a Case of choice Liquers...
Cooney Weiland's sextet was clearly the superior team, but it was a far cry from the hustling sextet that topped Dartmouth last Saturday. Time and again, smooth play making by all three Crimson lines worked the puck behind the Terrier defense, but Bradley's harp defensive work and Crimson listlessness around the not combined to keep the score close all evening...
Since there was little available music for solo harp and he has "no ability for composing" either, Zabaleta decided that he must uncover music written for the harp rather than resort to arrangements. For a year and a half he searched the libraries of Europe, turned up some surprising finds, e.g., harp music by one of Bach's sons, by Beethoven, Handel and Faure, as well as by early Spanish and French composers. That still left one gap: the moderns. To fill it, Zabaleta began badgering living composers to write for the harp. So far, six concertos have been...
Next after his recital, Harpist Zabaleta will make a record (for Esoteric), then load his harp into an airplane and take off for a month-long Caribbean concert tour. After that he heads for more recitals in the U.S. Northwest and Alaska...