Re: [Harp-L] Thais Meditation

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

This is one of the pieces that makes Robert's CD "Romances" my favorite album. The lush harp (the stringed kind) arpeggio and orchestral accompaniment is especially nice. Buy the CD so you can hear it on your hi-fi system.  Compression and computer speakers don't do it justice.

Robert, did you say that you used a B harmonica for "Meditation?" and read it in Eb?  (5 # from the key of the harmonica - 3b from the sheet music = ## concert)  I don't recall your rationale for that.

The piece, in D, ranges from A3 to A6. Transposed to G, it fits snugly on a 12-hole G harmonica. A3 is hole 1 draw and A6 is hole 12 draw with the button pushed.  (One # from the sheet music plus one # from the harmonica key = ## concert pitch)  It seems to lie well on the instrument in G.  Who besides Bonfiglio has a 16-hole B chromatic?

Vern


On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Robert Bonfiglio wrote:

> What I consider some of my best work, the Thais Meditation, is now up on Youtube.  I worked on the phrasing of this with my coach for 12 years, Andrew Lolya, who was the Principal Flute of the New York City Ballet Orchestra from 1961-1999 when died.  I always listened to other musicians to get my phrasing, tone and articulation.  Even my vibrato was stolen from the singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau!!
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> http://www.youtube.com/user/bach484#p/a/u/0/qgJy9uwxhmE
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> harmonically yours,
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> Robert Bonfiglio
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