Word: harps
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...orchestra was better in Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto. If its performance was a little heavy, this was not entirely the orchestra's fault, for in spite of the intriguing combination of instruments it is not one of Mozart's better concert. Karin Peterson played the flute part well, and Sally Day was wonderful on the harp. They combined impeccable technique with good phrasing and the result was real musicianship...
...Poetry. A couple of producers dug into the trunks and brought forth some spectacular antiques. Audio Rarities offered Golden Age of the Theater ($5.95), a horror of prehistoric recording in which the voices of the great dead can occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy...
...Choir was assisted by contralto Claire Smith, baritone Robert Simon, and six instrumentalists playing recorders, viols, lute and harp. The performance of one of Isaak's beautiful settings of the popular Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen showed three ways in which such pieces were executed in the Renaissance: the first verse by chorus alone, the second by Simon and three instruments, the third by chorus and instruments combined. (The Durer water colors of Inns bruck in the exhibition made clear why so many people hated to leave the little town.) With Simon and a lutanist at hand, I wonder...
...musicians did the most for the dream. They put piano, flute, violin, and harp together with a very good and strange effect. The harp was a very fine touch by Margaret E. Sloan...
...other novelty was Handle's Harp Concerto in B-flat. Soloist Sally Day traversed her fiendishly difficult part with ease and grace. The total effect was a treat to the car, and to the eye as well...