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Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

Bridget Kibbey

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

NPR

Music

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The irrepressible harpist proves that the instrument can be as tempestuous as a tango, as complex as a Bach fugue and sing as serenely as a church choir.

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I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

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To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts.

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Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. The you're going to

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the the Oh, The The the The the Oh The You're doing. Oh, The I'm going to do. the The The the I'm going to do. The new. The new. The the I'm going to do. the I'm going to do. the the The the The The You're going to be.

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The you're going to do you know and do you know Oh, the the

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the

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thank you so much for joining me today. I have to say I think I chose the best instrument in the world because we get to manipulate our fingertips on the strings to create new forms of expression and throughout my career I have just found and continue to find new vehicles for exploring what this instrument can do.

6:44.5

That piece you just heard, J.S. Bach, Stacotta and Fuggen D minor, originally written for the organ or

6:48.4

some say the violin.

6:49.8

I was actually responding to a bet to transcribe it for the harp.

6:53.5

No money was transpired, I hope he's watching so he can pay up.

6:56.8

But anyway, that was really an expression of me to explore Baroque

7:00.9

counterpoint and the drama of this incredible piece on the concert harp.

7:05.0

Going forward, I'd love to present to you this incredible piece written by one of the great living jazz artists,

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Picita de Rivera, who's a jazz clarinetist,

7:14.6

saxophonous from Cuba,

7:16.2

and he wrote this for piano, and I've adapted it for harp.

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