Trivia Hour with HarpFusion!

When was the Great Fire of Chicago, an event which Lyon & Healy survived?

R. Murray Schafer wrote many works for which harpist?

What is the name of the artist who helped to design the Salzedo Model for Lyon & Healy?

Ravel's Introduction et Allegro was written for the chromatique harp.

Marcel Grandjany emigrated to the United States from France in 1936.

Louisa Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams (the 6th US president), was a harpist.

Where is the University of Arizona located?

When tuned in E-flat, how many Major and minor keys could the single-action pedal harp accommodate?

HarpFusion alumna, Hannah Marker (Astronomy major and Planetary Science minor) is going to be the first harpist in space

Dr. Carrol McLaughlin grew up in Canada.

In which year was the Lyon & Healy Style 23 model introduced?

Carlos Salzedo drew inspiration from the physical gestures of a particular dancer. What was his/her name?

Which legendary harpist transcribed Debussy's Danses from the chromatique to the double-action pedal harp?

In which year was Lyon & Healy founded?

In harp notation, which French abbreviations are used to signify left hand and right hand?

Which harp company introduced the "Memory Harp" which allowed one to pre-program pedal changes via a small computer?

Alphonse Hasselmans taught Henriette Renié, Marcel Tournier, Carlos Salzedo, Marcel Grandjany, Pierre Jamet, and others

François Joseph Dizi's book of 48 Etudes earned for him the following title:

In Schafer's Concerto for Harp, the harp becomes more and more amplified as the work progresses.

For what type of harp did Debussy compose his famous Danses and in which year?

Which of the following was NOT one of the American companies making harps in the 19th century?

When a composer desires a more guitar-like effect, they will often use "PDLT" (which means "close to the table/board")

Marie-Antoinette played the harp.

In which year was the Pleyel chromatique harp introduced?

In his treatise on orchestration (1843), Berlioz cautioned composers against writing extremely chromatic harp parts.

Marcel Grandjany organized the first harp department at the Conservatoire in Montreal, Quebec in 1943.

Who won the 2018 Composition Contest for the USA International Harp Competition?

Harp harmonics are always notated where they are played.

In 2014,  mayor Rahm Emanuel declared June 4th to be Lyon & Healy Harps Day in the city of Chicago.

Which of the following works was originally written for the single-action pedal harp?

What is the model of electroacoustic harp played by Lara Somogyi?

Who inspired the design of the Style 11 built by Lyon & Healy?

For whom did legendary composer John Williams write a harp concerto?

Ravel wrote his Introduction et Allegro in roughly a week.

When was HarpFusion founded?

By which year had the single-action pedal harp evolved, using a system that connected hooks to pedals?

Who is the current harpist with Florence and the Machine?

Arizona does not participate in Daylight Savings.

Dr. Michelle Gott grew up in Las Vegas.

Our earliest evidence of the harp comes from Mesopotamia roughly 5000 years ago.

For a time, Lyon & Healy was the sole representative in the Chicago territory of Steinway & Sons pianos.

Harpists are not always angels. In addition to an impressive musical career, what else was Bochsa known for?

Judy Loman grew up in Canada.

Who founded HarpFusion?

Heartland Harps, based in North Carolina, makes a concert grand pedal harp using carbon fiber and weighing under 40 lbs.

In Europe, what types of harps were commonly played in the 17th and early 18th centuries?

Everyone is confused by Arizona's time zone.

Which of the following is not one of the movements from Tournier's Images Suites?

Berlioz advocated for a triple action on the harp that would have enabled double-sharps on C, F, and G.

Hasselmans' students at the Paris Conservatoire were expected to perform two etudes and one piece from memory each week.

The translation of the French term "PDLT" means "close to the pedals"

Who founded the harp department at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1924?

The Aoyama Musical Instrument Company (maker of Aoyama harps) was founded in Fukui, Japan in which year?

Who were the Angelaires?

Hector Berlioz referred to Elias Parish Alvars as "the Liszt of the harp."

Which Canadian harpist won 2020 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber? 

In which year was Sebastian Erard granted a patent for the double-action pedal mechanism?

Carlos Salzedo was born in Spain.

How many special effects pedals did Lara Somogyi use in her live-stream performance for the Tucson HarpFest?

Venus Harps was founded in the 1970s in Europe.

What does "senza lentezza" indicate?

Who edited Bochsa's 40 Easy Etudes, Op. 318, adding variations to expand the technical material of the original?