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aprilstarchild) wrote2005-06-15 10:36 pm
aprilstarchild) wrote2005-06-15 10:36 pm
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Harp Klezmer music!! Oh man, that rocks.
I love how adaptable even lever harps are. Middle-eastern music sounds fantastic on a harp as well--David Helfand from Eugene plays middle-eastern as well as Israeli music on his.
Klezmer music is sort fascinating and neato because even the happy dance tunes are in minor key. But then, if you'd been a Jewish person in Eastern Europe between the Diaspora and now, you'd write all your music in minor key, too. Or as the "shit happens" religion tshirt puts it: "Why does this shit keep happening to us?"
Ashley's been looking at wedding music. I'm trying to get her to hire a harpist or a group with a harpist. *lol* She likes Pachelbel's Canon in D, which, good lord! Every harp player on the planet plays a slightly different arrangement of that one. Personally, I always wanted "She Moved Through the Fair" at a wedding/etc, but I always think it's probably an odd choice because it's actually a really sad song, where the girl dies and then visits him as a ghost and tells him "...it won't be long, love, 'til our wedding day," which is kinda creepy now that I think about it. *shrug* It's a really pretty tune and sounds wonderful on the harp.
I really should be asleep.
I love how adaptable even lever harps are. Middle-eastern music sounds fantastic on a harp as well--David Helfand from Eugene plays middle-eastern as well as Israeli music on his.
Klezmer music is sort fascinating and neato because even the happy dance tunes are in minor key. But then, if you'd been a Jewish person in Eastern Europe between the Diaspora and now, you'd write all your music in minor key, too. Or as the "shit happens" religion tshirt puts it: "Why does this shit keep happening to us?"
Ashley's been looking at wedding music. I'm trying to get her to hire a harpist or a group with a harpist. *lol* She likes Pachelbel's Canon in D, which, good lord! Every harp player on the planet plays a slightly different arrangement of that one. Personally, I always wanted "She Moved Through the Fair" at a wedding/etc, but I always think it's probably an odd choice because it's actually a really sad song, where the girl dies and then visits him as a ghost and tells him "...it won't be long, love, 'til our wedding day," which is kinda creepy now that I think about it. *shrug* It's a really pretty tune and sounds wonderful on the harp.
I really should be asleep.
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Yeah...most harp players charge a small fortune...especially if they play a monster giant harp. I prefer the Celtic ones me own self ;)
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A friend of mine had an aunt who did custom sewing, and eventually stopped doing bridal stuff entirely because of too many run-ins with "Bridezilla"s.