Suddenly, the room dissolved. She stood on a bridge in a city that didn’t exist—part Paris, part Kyoto, part watercolor. The harp became a cascade: droplets turned to scales, scales turned to birds. A clarinet call from a distant garden. A flute trill from a lantern-lit boat below. The string quartet was the current of the river itself, urgent and tender, pulling her forward.
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Introduction.
: This piece was commissioned by Érard to showcase their double-action pedal harp against the rival Pleyel "chromatic harp" (for which Debussy wrote his Danses sacrée et profane ). Program notes from the LA Phil detail this rivalry. Suddenly, the room dissolved