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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- We rarely invite Tiny Desk alumni back to the confines of Bob Boilen's work space, but we couldn't resist this time. Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux have both given solo Tiny Desk performances. Since then they've paired up for concerts and a new album of works composed especially for their combination of instruments.
Although the harp and guitar are both instruments you pluck and strum, they seem to come from different corners of the classical world. The guitar conjures up the legacy of zesty Spanish music while the harp must contend with the cliché of its angelic role in the orchestra. But when Kondonassis and Vieaux are together, the two instruments seem to merge into a singularly evocative voice. Kondonassis joked that they could call it a "guitarp" until someone quickly Googled and told us there actually is such a contraption.
Music for harp and guitar isn't easy to come by, so Kondonassis and Vieaux have been busy commissioning works like the opening "Elysian," part of a larger suite written for the duo by Gary Schocker.
Anything that sounds even vaguely non-Western is a good fit for the duo because most cultures enjoy their own versions of the harp and guitar. Alan Hovhaness, an American composer with a global outlook, weaved Asian ideas into his Sonata for Harp and Guitar, subtitled "Spirit of Trees." And the duo ends by beating out the interlocking rhythms of the African candombe, which Argentine composer Máximo Diego Pujol placed in his Suite mágica. -- TOM HUIZENGA
Set List
Gary Schocker: "Elysian" (from Hypnotized)
Alan Hovhaness: Fuga: Allegro - Andante grazioso, Canon: Allegro (from Sonata for Harp and Guitar, "Spirit of Trees")
Máximo Diego Pujol: Vals, Candombe (from Suite mágica)
Credits
Producers: Tom Huizenga, Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Brian Jarboe; Videographers: Morgan McCloy, Maggie Starbard; Assistant Producer: Meredith Rizzo; photo by Meredith Rizzo/NPR
I'm honestly surprised there isn't more music made for harp and classical guitar. They suit each other so well...
Harp is one of those instruments that I have difficulty wrapping my mind around. Not the execution of playing or how it works, but the precision necessary to play. It's amazing to watch.
I’m a harpist as well, and honestly It’s not as hard as people think. It of course does get harder as you progress, but I actually find it easier to play than the piano and the guitar.
Lovely music! Just a note: Candombe is not from east Africa. It's actually a form of music and dance originated in Uruguay, some parts of Argentina and Brazil, by the African slaves. It combines lots of African traditions, as the slaves were from all the continent. Also, a huge part the characteristic music is due the the drums (chico, repique y piano), that were created by them and vary from the African ones.
(Sorry for English, i'm not native)
The harp is my all time favorite instrument, this was fantastic! The gentleman on the guitar was also quite good.
11:00 Valse, 2nd movement of the suite by Maximo Diego - what a wonderful piece!
Absolutely amazing combination. Jason has to be the most eclectic technical guitarist I've seen. What a combination of extremely unusual but exciting performers.
Guitar and harp work so well.
Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so!
This is absolutely beautiful! Great musicians and great music. Greetings from Brazil!
Absolutely beautiful and moving.
This is a message to my best friend who for the sake of this comment I will call Strum. If you are seeing this comment today I want you to know that I'm so excited about jamming and rehearsing tomorrow with you, and also on Monday (yay, I get to see you two days in a row!). So glad there is music to keep us together and even more glad we can have so much fun chilling and doing nothing. Looking forward to future musical adventures with you and just generally being the funny lame awesome friends that we are. You are a gift to my life and may the Universe protect you and watch over you and send you all the love I have for you. :')
Saties 3 Gymnopedies would be lovely in this combo.
Hi Finn, Not a combo, but if you have not already discovered it, please know that Amy Turk has done Gymnopedie #1 on solo harp on her You Tube channel.
@@071949 thx lovely piece of music - good luck to you and thx for posting wonderfull music.
Kondonassis has a CD called Quietude with Satie pieces on it. The first Gymnopedie, Gnossiennes 1-3 🕊
phenomenal
Beautiful atmospheric...
Very nice, Bravo.
🔥🔥🔥
are you still listening in march
This performance is lovely
1:33 💗
👇👇❣
Me encanta !!! Muy mágico "
Would be cool to add a hammer dulcimer to this combo.
I know you can basically do what you want in the studio as far as mic placement and who knows maybe Jason liked that sound position best but I think it is a terrible spot for a mono signal guitar.
Beautiful tune and well played, Jason is a great player, I love putting his CD on in the car.
+Brian Cullen I have to agree with you regarding the mic placement for Jason's guitar; not a very flattering sound...
Brian Cullen yeah I agree that the mic placement didn’t help their performance
sehr schön
is there anywhere I can find the music for this? I would really like "Spirit of Trees" for a duet I'm in
Where do you find the score of the Hovhaness's sonata for guitar and harp please?
beautiful music,but one question: how does that freakin harp fit in a CAB ?? getting from the airport to the tiny desk offices MUST be a bitch
+Rafman 52 - I don't know but I have a tiny violin. Shall I play it for you?
I too was wondering about logistics :)
There are ways.... lol.
I’m a harpist as well, and let me tell you, You can’t get that in a cab unless it’s seats fold down and it still has a spacious trunk. She most likely had to rent an SUV of some kind cuz there ain’t no way that’s getting in anything smaller!😂
Is James Brown freaking anyone else out? Or is it just me?
+eugenioalonso1 - He feels good. Why shouldn't you?
He's dead. He ain't feeling nothing where he's at.
Astromyxin
You obviously missed the drift or don't realize his signature song. Good day, sir.
DEDICADA A MEMORIA DO DOCINHO MAIS DOCINHO DO CARNAVAL CARIOCA,ANECY ROCHA.
but that thumb nail... eek!
I wish you hadn't pointed that out.
I bet it's a slice of a ping pong ball. Seriously, I used to play jazz gigs with Jason back in the day.
needs more cowbell
Don't vibrate so much!!!!! I like your playing, but IF you vibrate every last note of sentence, you ruin all good music!!!!!
Piotr Aleksander Nowak is there a "rule" which says you can't even if you want to? I don't think so...