Re: [Harp-L] Howard Levy playing "Amazing Grace" (St. Sabina'sChurch, Chicago)

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/9/2007 8:49:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

It goes  without saying that any harp player who doesn't take their hat
off to  Howard is a bloody fool. My remark was one expressing personal
taste.  Howard's technique is a preposterous marvel, but if I was going
to choose a  performance of Amazing Grace to take to a desert island,
there would be  long list before I got to this one.



Because of the acoustics of this church, the fast passages are lost in the  
natural reverb becoming sonic mush.. I would have taken that into consideration 
 and focused on longer tones if it had been my gig, but that is what artistic 
 license is all about.
 
The Iceman



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