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Oh, Oh, Oh, the And the So there's quite a bit of modern music written for the Harps Accord. So people think, oh, like you take pieces that are for the piano and you sort of transcribe them or you play them on the harpsichord. I mean, pianists take enough of our music.

But we are a much classier bunch than that, so we don't do that. We have our own music.

And actually a lot of people don't know that there are over 50 modern concertos for the Harps Accord.

So I get to play with a lot of different orchestras.

And I always wanted to play the Harps Accord,

but I didn't want to lose the opportunity

to play new music, because I really love new new music and I have a lot of friends who are composers because composers are the best people as we all know and

See it goes composers and then Harpsichordist I think and then everyone else.

And so I've always loved jazz and there was a jazz pianist who worked with Benny Goodman named Mel Powell.

Mel Powell was a nice Jewish boy from New York who took up the name Mel Powell.

I don't know what his original name was, but he became a jazz pianist and then he decided to become a

composer of sort of proper music as it was called in the 1950s and he studied

with Hindemith but unlike Hindemith he's actually not boring.

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