TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Pages Historic Performances 1-12 National Harp Conferences: 13-76 1968 - Santa Barbara, California 13 1969 - Rochester, New York 14-15 1970 - Lubock, Texas 15-16 1971 - Indiana University 17-18 1972 - Sand Diego, California 18-19 1973 - Montclair, New Jersey 20 1974 - Seattle, Washington 21 1975 - St. Paul, Minnesota 22-23 1976 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 23-24 1977 - Boston, Massachusetts 25-26 1978 - Sioux Falls, South Dakota 26-27 1979 - Mills College, Oakland CA 28 1980 - Fredonia, New York 28-29 1982 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina 30 1983 - Tempe, Arizona 31-32 1984 - St. Paul, Minnesota 33-34 1985 - Columbus, Ohio 34-36 1986 - Los Angeles, California 36-39 1987 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 39-41 1988 - Denver, Colorado 41-43 1989 - Evanston, Illinois 43-46 1990 - San Antonio, Texas 46-47 1991 - Fairfax, Virginia 47-50 1992 - San Diego, California 51-57 1993 - Ann Arbor, Michigan 58-59 1994 - Boston, Massachusetts 59-62 1995 - Greeley, Colorado 62-63 1996 - Tacoma, Washington 63 1998 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana 63-65 2000 - Cincinnati, Ohio 66-70 2002 - St. Paul, Minnesota 71-76 AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: TAPE LIBRARY Page 1 Historic Performances Number Title Participants H-1 Diebel - Fantasy for harp, flute and strings Susann McDonald with the (Premier Performance April 21, 1963) Ft. Collins Symphony, Thor Johnson, Conductor H-2 Kaminski - Piece for Harp Klari Szarvas Tal - Intrada Ma’ayani - Toccata for Harp Tal - Structure for Harp Soloman - Toccata for Harp Kaminski - Conzona ed Danza Jacobi - Canzona for Harp H-3 Grandjany-Poem for Harp, French horn & orchestra Marcel Grandjany (broadcast performance) Debussy Danses and Ravel Introduction et Allegro Phia Berghout (tape box marked London LS621) H-4 Zabel - La Source Ada Sassoli Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu Alberto Salvi Parish-Alvars - Fantasie in B Flat Alberto Slavi Rameau - La Cupis Carlos Salzedo and Britt Trio Tambourins; La Timide; L’Indescret; La Pantomime Salzedo - Memories of a Clock; Pirouetting Music Box; Carlos Salzedo Behind the Barracks (“Short Stories for Young Harpists”) Renie - Harp Concerto in c minor (Mvts I & II) Henriette Renié Debussy - Premiere Arabesque Marcel Grandjany Traditional - Londonderry Air Variations Marcel Grandjany Grandjany - Old Chinese Song Marcel Grandjany Bull/Grandjany - The Kings Hunt Marcel Grandjany (These sound like they were taken from records but obviously very old historical and so of interest. The Renie has been reissued in a commeroative album and Grandjany has recorded the Arabesque and King’s Hunt more than once. WORTH KEEPING.) H-5 Grandjany - Divertissment for harp Marcel Grandjany Grandjany - Old Chinese Song Marcel Grandjany De Falla/Grandjany - Spanish Dance No.1 “La Vida Breve” Marcel Grandjany Bach/Grandjany - Largo from the Violin Sonata Marcel Grandjany Renié - Légende Marcel Grandjany (from Performance - no date. Applause can be heard. Grandjany comments on changes in the program) “Harp impressions of Gershwin” Mimi Allen (from a TV show, CBS 1966) AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: TAPE LIBRARY Page 2 Historic Performances Number Title Participants H-6 Tournier - Etude de Concert Brigitte Deshais du Portail Franck - Suite Brigitte Deshais du Portail Rota - Sarabande and Toccata Giuliana Albisetti Mortari - Sonatine Prodigio Lynne Turner Caplet - Divertissement a l’Espagnole Lynne Turner (Concert of the 1962 Israel Contest. Noticeable hum, quality muffled, but historic. WORTH KEEPING.) H-7 Zabel - La Source Henriette Renié Renie - Contemplation Henriette Renié Hasselmans - Priere Marie Goossens Salzedo - Whirlwind Sidonie Goossens Harty - Spring Facies #1 Sidonie Goossens Tournier - Jazz Band Sidonie Goossens E. Goossens - Second Ballade Sidonie Goossens Debussy - Arabesque #1 John Cockerill Flotow-Oberthür - Last Rose of Summer (jazzy ending) John Cockerill and Orchestra (these all sound as if taken from recordings; quality not too good, but performances are rare as is some of the music. WORTH KEEPING.) Second side: Popular music by Lorenzi and his orchestra. Also from discs. Not too unusual, usual type of pop harp stuff. H-8 Renie - Fantasie for harp and violin Kathleen Alister, harp Molnar - Fantasy on Japanese Folk songs with Walter Mony Badings - Cavatina Ibert - Entr’acte Berlioz - Trio (from “L’Enfance du Christ”) with flute and violin (Excellent sound, maybe studio recording, some rare and unusual music. WORTH KEEPING.) H-9 Handel - Grandjany - Prelude and Toccata Ursula Kwasnicka Grandjany - Divertissement (AHS Competition winner) Canon; Fughetta; Final (Oct 7, 1966) Grandjany - Fantaisie sur un theme de Haydn (Good Sound - WORTH KEEPING) AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: TAPE LIBRARY Page 3 Historic Performances Number Title Participants H-10 “A Tribute to Carlos Salzedo” (Town Hall, New York City, March 18, 1962) Sonata for harp and piano Marietta Bitter and William Harms Bolmimerie Curtis Institute Harp Ensemble (music for 7 harps composed for dancer Adolph Bohm) Trois Poemes de Mallarme, for hrp, sop & pn Florence Wightman, Dorothy Baker, and Louise Grenbery Concerto for harp and Seven Wind Instruments Marjorie Tyre and Prelude – Cadenza - Allegro Vivo Chamber Ensemble Nocturne Quatre Danses: Minuet; Farandole; Pavane; Gailliarde Preambule et Jeux Alice Chalifoux and Chamber ensemble Variations sure un theme dans le style ancien Lucile Lawrence Prelude for a Drama Lucile Lawrence Introspection Lucile Lawrence Whirlwind Lucile Lawrence (A Truly Historic Performance) H-11 Kaminsky - Ballade for Harp and Orchestra Klari Szarvas, Hp; Jerusalem Broadcasting Orchestra, Kaminsky conducting H-12 Ginastera - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra Sylvia Meyer, harp; Greenville Symphony Orchestra Ginastera - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra Sylvia Meyer, harp; National Symphony Orchestra H-13 Siegmeister - American Harp Pearl Chertok Reverie; Dance; Ballade; Celebration H-14 Diebel -Three Bagatelles for Harp and French Horn (No Name on Tape) Two Etudes for solo Harp Blues ; Toccata Ten Bagatelles for Harp and Brass quintet Three American Folk tunes for Harp and Brass Hop Up My Ladies; And the Trees do Moan; The Coast of High Barbary Trio for harp, clarinet and tape Trio - “The Muses” for harp, flute and cello Susan Davids AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: TAPE LIBRARY Page 4 Historic Performances Number Title Participants H-15 Mamlock - Piece for harp and viola (1965) Susan Jolles Noon - Inflections, Op.15, for harp, vibraphone, piano prepared piano and harpsichord Cynthia Price Felciano - Grasis for harp, Flute, Clarinet and violin (No name on tape) (poor sound, muffled) H-16 Wagner - Concertino for harp and orchestra Sylvia Meyer, hp; (radio broadcast 3/19/49) National Symph. Orch. Piston - Capriccio for harp and strings Anne Adams; (February 9, 1969) San Francisco Chamber Orch. H-17 “A Program of Avant-Garde Music” Marcella DeCray (Nov. 30, 1971) Busotti - Fragmentations (2 harps, 1 player) Jolas - Tranche Shifrin - Continuum Sheinfeld - Patterns for harp Kessner - Sonatina in 3 Movements H-18 “New Music for Harp and other Instruments” Harpists: Paula Abrams, (Performed at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Susan Allen, Beverly Colgan, Sept 8, 1974 - Jean-Louis Le Roux, conductor) Natalie Cox, Marcella Decray, Hovhaness - Island of Mysterious bells for mltp Harps Elaine Humphreys, Eva Milburn – Lament for harp and Sprechstimme Kaufugen, Ruth Rest, (first performance) Pamela Stutzke, Linda Wood, John – Tachystos for multiple harps and flute John Fuller Beecroft - Tre pezzi brevi for harp and flute Eaton - Sonority Movement for nine harps and flute Widdoes - Acanthus for harp and vibraphone Boucourechliev - Anarchipel V for harp, harpsichord, cathedral organ, piano and percussion. H-19 Dohnanyi - Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra Lucile Jennings and (Premier performance Jan 16, 1963) Ohio University Chamber Orchestra Salzedo - Sonata for harp and piano Lucile Jennings and Eugene Jennings Dohnanyi - Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra Patricia John (piano reduction) Wilder - Dance; Dress, Frolic Constance Vesio AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: TAPE LIBRARY Page 5 Historic Performances Number Title Participants H-20 Badings - Concerto for harp and orchestra Phia Berghout and Radio Philhamronic Orch. Willem van Otterloo, Conducting Phia Berghout interview with Patricia John (Queekhoven, Nov. 8, 1969) Henk Badings biography and the Harp Concerto Felciano - Four Poems from the Japanese for (no performers identified) 5 harps, women’s voices and percussion Felciano - Aubade for harp, piano and string trio Owens - Suite for harp; Aria; Pastorale; Toccata Lucile Lawrence Owens - Folk Song Trio for harp, flute and cello Cyntia Otis with Ardyth Alton, Owens - (trans.) Early Lute Pieces (16th Century) Paul Boyer Molinaro - Balletto cetto il Conte Orlando Anon - Villanella; Gagliarda Roncalli - Passacaglia (1692) Ravel - Sonatine (trans. by Salzedo) for hp, flt, cello “Harp and Oboe Recital” (May 14, 1978, Cortland NY) Jude Mollenhauer, Bach – Sonata in E Flat William Webster Ravel/Webster - Le Tombeau de Couperin Prelude; Forlane; Menuet; Rigadoun Rachmaninoff/Webster - Vocalise Fricker - Serenade for hp, flt, clarinet, vla, and cello (harpist not identified) (CBC Broadcast in Vancouver 12/18/59) H-21 Harp and Flute recital, New York 1970 Lise Nadeau and Edith Konshoj Locatelli - Sonata da Camera ( in 4 mvts) Petr-Bascopol - Sonata (in 3 mvts) Fürstenau - Fantasie, theme and variations Eben - Ordo Modalis: Intrada; Air; Rigadoun; Sarabande; Giga Persichetti - Serenade No.10 H-22 Mozart - Concerto for Harp and Flute, in C, K.299 Lily