Friday, December 1, 2017 — 5:30 pm
Music for Harps with Poetry
Featuring Linda Larkin and Julie Hawley, harps and Miriam Sagan, poet
A unique combination of music for harp with poetry, read by the poet, to open the season of Advent.
| Program: | |
|---|---|
| Advent Medley: Ancient Sounds Poem: Advent | Traditional tunes arr. by Linda Larkin |
| Rain Poem: Frenchy’s Field | Kim Robertson |
| Coilsfield House Poem: Compass | Irish melody arr. by Larkin |
| The Old Men Poem: A Riddle | Scottish melody arr. by Gillian Fleetwood |
| Gabhaim Molta Bride (We Praise St. Brigid) Poem: Book of Darkness | Irish melody arr. by Kim Robertson |
| Swallow Song Sung by Julie Hawley | Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) melody arr. by Sunita Staneslow |
| Improvisation by Linda Larkin Poem: Scorpius | |
| Poem: Touching the Earth Quietude | Linda Larkin |
| Poem: Pantoum for Hildegard O Euchari | Hildegard of Bingen |
Formerly a professional pianist, then a hospice social worker, Linda Larkin, MMus, MSW, now lives in Santa Fe. She has numerous published compositions for harp and 3 collections of chants which complement the ministry of John Philip Newell. She is the founding director of High Desert Harp Ensemble and in 2015 produced a highly-acclaimed CD with the ensemble. She enjoys sharing the wonders of harp with students.
Julie Hawley plays and teaches the Celtic harp, and has composed original harp music for the Taos Dance Festival and the Moving People Dance Theater in Santa Fe. Together with synthesist Will Yoder, she has created a CD, “A Guide to Dreams”, which features the harp in a series of soundscapes that are both highly lyrical and seductively rhythmic. Julie is a devoted member of the Santa Fe High Desert Harp Ensemble, and is one of the founders of the Taos Threshold Choir, whose members sing for hospice patients.
Miriam Sagan is the author of 30 published books, including the novel Black Rainbow (Sherman Asher, 2015) and Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space (Casa de Snapdragon), which just won the 2016 Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in Poetry. She founded and headed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement this year. Her blog Miriam’s Well has a thousand daily readers. She has been a writer in residence in two national parks, at Yaddo, MacDowell, Colorado Art Ranch, Andrew’s Experimental Forest, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Iceland’s Gullkistan Residency for creative people, and another dozen or so remote and unique places. Her awards include the Santa Fe Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts, the Poetry Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and A Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa.