Marcel Tournier News
French harpist, composer, and pedagogue
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2022-05-18 12:00:00
British harpist Lucy Nolan plays music by Marcel Tournier, Benjamin Britten, Sally Beamish, Paul Patterson, Tsvetlina Likova and Astor Piazzolla, heard by Mike Wheeler
2018-12-08 17:02:00
Unusual Christmas concert - songs, poetry and harp !
[…] "I thought the train would never come" (/How slow the whistle came/I don't believe a peevish bird/So whimpered for the Spring...) Then, from Minns, three of Aaron Copland's 12 settings of Dickinson poems: a forcefully expressed, soprano-apt "Why do they shut me out of heaven?" (/Did I sing too loud...); "The World feels dusty"; and "Heart we will forget him".Before we moved into Shakespeare territory Mary Reid refreshed our musical palates with two of Marcel Tournier's evocative Images: the cool and calm of "Au Seuil du Temple" and the multicoloured fluttering of magical birds in "La Volière Magique" -- I expected Stravinsky's Firebird to fly in at any moment.Shakespeare moved in with Hamlet: Minns sang Elizabeth Maconchy's beautifully simple setting of "Ophelia's Song", mourning the death of her father Polonius, its watery sounds perhaps foretelling Ophelia's own demise.Then different approaches to Romeo and Juliet. Minns in bel canto mode made […]
2017-04-12 21:09:02
Flutist Robin Kani of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs with harpist Frances Duffy on April 18 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Allentown. Featured are works by Bach, Rossini, de Rohozinski, Tournier, Jongen and Lutoslawski. (ALLENTOWN ...
2017-04-12 21:09:02
Flutist Robin Kani of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs with harpist Frances Duffy on April 18 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Allentown. Featured are works by Bach, Rossini, de Rohozinski, Tournier, Jongen and Lutoslawski. (ALLENTOWN ...
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