Word: harps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUMMER NIGHT has three smiles: one for the young, one for the fools and one for the old. In the course of A Little Night Music, as lovers discover the arms they were fated for, it smiles benignly three times. To the twinkle of harp music, the night forgives all: the ignorance of youth, the meddlesomeness of elders, the folly of the misguided. Given its abundant compassion, one wonders how kindly the summer night would have looked upon this production...
...create the mood of enchantment which resolves them. In the first case, we hear Fredrik singing while Anne mumbles to herself by her dressing table; in the second, a misplaced candelabra obscures faces confronting one another over Madame Armfeldt's dining table. Only the magical twinkling of the harp in the second scene finally distinguishes between...
...really hard-core folkies might want to check out "In Praise of Folly," a satiric revue of English music written in the 16th century by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Greenwood Consort, a six-member group of lute, tenor viol, recorder, krummerhorn and Flemish harp players, performs the revue Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the Longy School, 1 Follyn St. in Cambridge. Tickets are $3.50 at the door $2 for students...
...musical modes to represent the different levels and intensities of action. The most striking distinctions are between the music moving the spirits and that moving the mere mortals. All different kinds of musical textures and harmonies distinguish the two groups. The fairies are musically represented by instruments like the harp, harpsichord, and celesta; and percussion that frequently goes off at melodic and rhythmic tangents as unexpected as are Puck's entrances and exits. The humans' movements are heralded by woodwind and strings that stay comparatively close to the everyday world. Occasional discords throw into relief the eeriness of the fairy...
Classical and baroque harp and harpsichord music will help to create the planned relaxed atmosphere, Paul Lolax, the Voyagers' carpenter and soon-to-be maitre d', said yesterday...