Flagey
Parker Ramsay
Tatiana Daubek

Parker Ramsey

Words Unspoken
Fri 4 Jun 12:30
Studio 1
4 Jun
12:30
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  • sandwich and drink included

Program

Alonso Mudarra, Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico
Josquin des Prez, Mille regretz
Orlando di Lasso, Susanne un jour
Claudia Francesca Rusca, from Sacri Concerti: Canzon seconda
Anonymous, Une jeune fillette (La Monica)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Canzona dopo l’Epistola
Gabriel Fauré, Une châtelaine en sa tour, Op. 110
Paul Hindemith, Sonate pour harpe
Nico Muhly, from The Street: VI. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus – X. Jesus is Stripped of his Garments – XIII. Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross
Benjamin Britten, Suite for harp, Op. 83

artist(s)

Parker Ramsey, harp
Parker Ramsey about the program: "As an harpist and instrumentalist, I’m always fascinated to see how composers shape and interact with the texts that inspire them. In the Renaissance, madrigals or motets based on biblical stories were used to teach students to improvise and in tandem instill lessons of morality and virtue. Later in the baroque, Gregorian chants were treated as seeds of germination by the likes of Frescobaldi as from which contrapuntal fantasias were crafted. In the era of programmatic music, poems were treated as narrative frameworks within which composers such as Fauré would fit musical ideas. In the 20th Century, we see instances of silent poetry, such as with Paul Hindemith, who set an obscure poem by Hölty which was meant for the harpist’s eyes, but perhaps nobody else’s. In Words Unspoken, I’ve gone back and chosen some of my favorite harp works I learned as a student and paired them with the solo movements from Nico Muhly’s The Street, a setting of the Stations of the Cross by poet Alice Goodman."
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