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LCAS President's 100th Birthday Concert


Thursday 23rd July 2020



Harp Haven


Artistes include harpists:
Heather Brooks ♦ Fern Brooks ♦ Rhys Whatty ♦
Anne Denholm* ♦ Gwenllian
Llŷr
*with The Hermes Experiment: Oliver Pashley, clarinet Marianne Schofield, double bass • Héloïse Werner, soprano

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Harp Haven


Programme

Fern Brooks
Sounds of the Garden (2020)

performed by harpists Fern Brooks & Heather Brooks


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Three performances by Heather Brooks:

André Caplet (1878-1925)
from Deux Divertissements (1924)
Divertissement à la Française
    Bien allègrement et carré    Quite freely and frank


Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788)
from Harp Sonata in G major H563 Wq139
    2 Allegro    Fast


Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany (1891-1975)
The Colorado Trail, Fantaisie Op 28


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Deborah Henson-Conant (b1953)
Nataliana


performed by Rhys Whatty at the 2014 Urdd Eisteddfod


Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Keyboard Sonata in E major K380
Andante comodo    Comfortable walking pace

performed by Anne Denholm before the opening event for the 2017 Thaxted Festival, Essex



Meredith Jane Monk (b1942)
arr Anne Denholm (b1991)
Double Fiesta

performed by The Hermes Experiment



Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871-1915)
transcription by Gwenllian Llŷr
from Prélude et Nocturne pour piano pour la main gauche seule, Op 9 (1894)
    Nocturne in Db major    Andante    Walking


performed by Gwenllian Llŷr


Haldon Evans (b1953)
from Ymsonau    Three Soliloquies
    1 Dros y Mynydd    Over the Mountain    Allegretto    Moderately fast

performed by
Gwenllian Llŷr


ENCORE

David Watkins (1946-1991)
Petite Suite (1961)
    Prelude
    Fire Daance
 
performed by Rhys Whatty, ARSM, in St Stephen's Methodist Church, Cannock, in June 2017

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When asked which instrument she would most like to hear for her birthday concert, Mollie Canning said the harp.

The plan for today's live concert was to invite harpist sisters Heather and Fern Brooks. Within days of making those arrangements everything changed and they kindly agreed to hold on as late as possible before deciding whether they could play live at LMC. Sadly, a few days before July 1st we had to admit defeat.

The sisters then sent links to some of their playing, in online videos, so let's hear some of those performances to open today's concert.

Mollie has always enjoyed her garden. For her, gardening rates well above housework, well above sitting indoors. So let's open with younger sister Fern Brooks' original composition for two harps, Sounds of the Garden. The video gives a superb close-up view of their playing:
Fern Brooks
Sounds of the Garden (2020)

performed by harpists Fern Brooks & Heather Brooks


Fern Brooks is currently studying at the Purcell School, working towards Grade 8 on both harp and piano. She started playing the harp at the age of 8.

Older sister Heather Brooks was Head Girl while at the Purcell School, and now studies at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has been a Section Leader in the National Youth Harp Orchestra of Great Britain, and conductor's assistant for the NYH Training Orchestra. Heather has won many awards and competitions in the years since taking up the harp at the age of 10.

Each sister has been awarded a Government Music & Dance Scheme Scholarship and is a Beneficiary of The Robert Bouffler Music Trust. In July 2015 Heather was awarded the long term loan of  The Charles Steer Promenaders Salvi Aurora Harp by The Cherubim Music Trust, from which Fern also benefits.

Next we shall hear three works performed by Heather. André Caplet was a French harpist and composer whose Divertissement à la Française is followed by an Allegro movement by CPE Bach, 2nd surviving son of JS Bach.

The third piece is by Grandjany, born in Paris, he attended the Conservatoire there. In 1936 he moved to the US and was appointed head of the Harp Department of the Juilliard School in1938. The American Harp Society was founded in his New York apartment, when its committee met there for the first time in 1962. He remained an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of the Society for the rest of his life.
André Caplet (1878-1925)
from Deux Divertissements (1924)
Divertissement à la Française
Bien allègrement et carré
Quite freely and frank
Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788)
from Harp Sonata in G major H563 Wq139
2 Allegro    Fast

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany (1891-1975)
The Colorado Trail, Fantaisie Op 28


We readily associate the harp with the Celtic nations, and most of all with the Welsh and their Eisteddfodau. Here is a beautiful performance by Rhys Whatty, from Swansea, at the Urdd Eisteddfod of 2014.

He is playing Nataliana, a Grade 7 piece. You will hear a lady say his name, pronouncing it as if the H was the first letter, rather than the second.

American harpist and composer Deborah Henson-Conant describes Nataliana as a romantic piece, adding:

This was the first piece I ever wrote for harp. I was so taken with the hand-built lever harp my friend Natalie had that I wanted to write a professional-level concert piece I could play on it. Printed in both C and E-flat, this piece has no lever or pedal changes, but it’s very challenging, romantic and passionate!

Deborah Henson-Conant (b1953)
Nataliana


performed by Rhys Whatty at the 2014 Urdd Eisteddfod

Hands up if you have your own harpist.

OK, so it's just HRH The Prince of Wales then.

You wonder how the rest of us manage. Fortunately, HRH does not take up all of Anne Denholm's time and she is available for other projects. Like this Scarlatti performance before the opening event for the 2017 Thaxted Festival.

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Keyboard Sonata in E major K380
Andante comodo    Comfortable walking pace

performed by Anne Denholm before the opening event for the 2017 Thaxted Festival, Essex





Anne Denholm is also a member of The Hermes Experiment who were due to perform Double Fiesta, by the American composer Meredith Monk, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival on May 19th 2020.

Live performance being impossible The Hermes Experiment put together this virtual performance from their homes.

Here is modern writing that includes the harp. There is plenty of music being written for solo harp, and quite a lot appears on youtu.be.
Meredith Jane Monk (b1942)
arr Anne Denholm (b1991)
Double Fiesta

performed by The Hermes Experiment:
Anne Denholm, harp • Oliver Pashley, clarinet
Marianne Schofield, double bass • Héloïse Werner, soprano & co-director
Hanna Grzeskiewicz, co-director



Our three Welsh harpists all come from South Wales, Anne Denholm  from Carmarthenshire, Rhys Whatty from Swansea, and next we hear Gwenllian Llŷr, from Bridgend.

Gwenllian has performed at LMC twice, and is keen to join us again, and to play for Leatherhead Trinity School as soon as circumstances permit.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, here is Gwenllian playing her transcription of Scriabin's beautiful piano Nocturne for the Left Hand.
 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871-1915)
transcription by Gwenllian
Llŷr
from Prélude et Nocturne pour piano pour la main gauche seule, Op 9 (1894)
Nocturne in Db major    Andante    Walking


performed by Gwenllian Llŷr



Let's listen to another living Welsh composer, Haldon Evans, and the first of his Three Soliloquies, Dros y Mynydd or Over the Mountain.

The performer is once again Gwenllian Llŷr.
Haldon Evans (b1953)
from Ymsonau    Three Soliloquies
1 Dros y Mynydd    Over the Mountain
Allegretto    Moderately fast

performed by
Gwenllian Llŷr

ENCORE

For this week's encore piece I have chosen a little more from Rhys Whatty.

This is from 2017 when he ventured as far as Cannock, Staffordshire. He couldn't have done that during the lockdown, the Welsh were limited to 5 miles from home!

I hope you will enjoy Petite Suite, written by Welsh harpist and composer David Watkins.

And please remember to scroll down and put your fiver into Mollie Canning's MENCAP campaign, in celebration of her 100th birthday tomorrow.
David Watkins (1946-1991)
Petite Suite (1961)
Prelude    ♦    Fire Daance
 
performed by Rhys Whatty, ARSM, in St Stephen's Methodist Church, Cannock, in June 2017

ARSM: Associate of the Royal Schools of Music is a degree-level performance qualification. Rhys gained his, with Merit, at the age of 19.

Presenter: Peter Steadman
Assisted by: Donna Brooks, Jane Forrester & Richard Miller



We hope you have enjoyed your Harp Haven  Concert Online


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It's the big day tomorrow.

Mollie Canning reaches 100 years of age on Friday 24th July. She will be enormously pleased to know you've helped
MENCAP.

We hope listeners to these concerts will help drive the total raised for
MENCAP closer to £5,000.

Every gift counts, small, medium, or large. If you are able to add Gift Aid that's even better.
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