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Re: Harp-is-chord
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Tilman Skowroneck <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:44:49 -0500
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:57:30 -0500, Lee Ridgway <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Last night, listening to WHRB, the Harvard FM station which for
>several years has been the Boston area's best classical (and jazz)
>station, the DJ announced a recording of Handel's Suite in g, "played
>on harp-is-chord by Sophie Yates". 

Beautiful upside-downy, like the Henle fingering of the Gigue in the first
Bach Partita; the fingerer (that's a profession) exchanges the hands without
ever telling anyone.
Oh but the radio bloopers. Like Magnificawt, Bach's "Musical Victim" and
"die Solistin war Anna Bylsma". More, please!
T.

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