Word: harps
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Tune up your harp, polish your old halo...
...four separate pieces, starting in 1897. Some 16 years later he fused them to make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...
Concerto Concert with the Kirkland Festival Orchestra featuring Gerry Moshell, conductor Stephen Drury, piano and Kip Wilkins, oboe. Prokofieff Piano Concerto No. 3, Strauss Oboe Concerto, plus chamber works for harp and tenor by Grandjany and Stravinsky. Kirkland House...
Sean Potts and Sean Keane work for the Irish post office. Martin Fay is a purchasing agent for a Dublin electronics company. Paddy Moloney is an administrator. Derek Bell has been an orchestral harp player for ten years. Peadar Mercier is a construction foreman and the father of ten children. Michael Tubridy is a consulting engineer. They are, in short, about as average a bunch as any country can produce and not the usual candidates for pop stardom. But when they sit down together to play, they are something else again: the Chieftains, Ireland's leading folk band...
...music of the Chieftains is an amalgam of two distinct Irish traditions: the single-voiced, unaccompanied pipe tunes of the folk people, and the richer, harmonized rustle of the Irish harp. It is the careful blending of the two that gives the Chieftains their special sound. Superficially, that sound seems fairly unsophisticated, resembling something halfway between a Renaissance dance ensemble and a bluegrass band. Bluegrass, of course, owes much to British folk music...