"No Entry. Concert in Progress" says the sign. I was allowed in between pieces. The concert was listed in Time Out as Harping On, a title which rather belittled the high quality musicianship on show. Multi-award winning harpist (yes, it was a pun) Eleanor Turner treated the audience to a wide-range of music and playing-styles. She spoke about the musical colour of the harp. Before a piece by Argentine Tango composer Astor Piazzolla she explained she'd be playing the instrument low on the strings to better replicate the sounds of guitar and accordian, the instruments on which the composition would have been more usually performed. Other composers included Purcell, Gershwin and Faure.
It's sweet that harpists hug their harps at the end of a piece.
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