So rarely is this instrument featured; and the corresponding corollary: so rare to feature a harpist.  We learn from the Moscow-trained musician a brief history, evolution, the appeal and the availability of music written specifically for this ‘feminine-looking’ musical instrument. She tells the story--and I think there is a  moral here for all young people learning to play a musical instrument--about her own conversion to the harp. Her first love was the piano.

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Tags:  The Bigger Picture,  Front Row,  Gulnara Mashurova,  Harpist,  Singapore Symphony Orchestra,  classical music,  Handel on harp,  Hasselmans on harp,  Carlos Salzedo,  Marcel Grandjany