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Major in Music? Why Bother.

From Kimberly Rowe's blog:

I am trying to decide how I feel about this article in The New York Times about the ratio of conservatory musicians (in this case, Juilliard) who actually continued to make livings as performing artists 10 to 20 years after graduation. The central point seems to be that despite being highly skilled musicians—enabling them to get into an elite school like Juilliard in the first place—nearly half of the graduating class of 1994 ultimately ended up doing other things. While these stats may seem...

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Siete Canciones Populaires Espanolas (de Falla, Manuel)

Composer(s)
de Falla, Manuel
Instrumentation
Two harps
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0 players are working on this piece right now.
7 movements that work beautifully as a complete set in performance, or several can be free-standing encores. This is a appropriate for harpists at advanced or professional level. It has been performed in recital by Marcia Dickstein and Amy Wilkins.
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Israel Competition Announces Repertoire for 2015

Florence Sitruk is the newly appointed Artistic Director of the International Harp Contest in Israel

Florence Sitruk, Artistic Director, together with the Music Committee of the International Harp Contest in Israel announced the required repertoire for the 19th Harp Contest to be held Nov. 19–Dec. 3, 2015 in Israel. The required repertoire includes:

1st stage:

Choice of one:
• Jean-François Dizi (1780-1847) Grande Sonate pour la harpe (Ed. Marielle Nordmann, Durand) (With repeats)
Or
• W. A. Mozart, (1756-1791) Sonata in F-Major for piano, KV332 (300k) (Arr. for harp by Maria Luisa Rayan, L&H...

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Tidying Up the Forum

March 1, 2013
From Hester Musicologist's blog:

Dear Harpies:

In an effort to keep our forums nice and tidy, I've done a little housekeeping and moved some recent threads into more appropriate forums. (For example you can now find Jerusha Amado's What's on Your Music Stand thread in the Repertoire forum. We'd like to ask that you try to post new threads in the most appropriate forum. Also a reminder that you can easily add links and emphasis to your posts: here's how.

We're really excited to introduce private...

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