Succumb to the enchanting beauty of 4 harps as the cp2 Harp Quartet plucks, strums, and swirls its way through rich arrangements of classical and popular music alike. With Handel’s instantly recognizable “Horn Pipe,” from Water Music, the quartet astonishingly performs a score originally intended for over 30 instrumentalists with just 8 hands. Next up on the program are selections from Jules Massenet’s Le Cid, an opera about love and revenge. To follow, the quartet pays tribute to Paganini – that soul-selling (as some accused him) showboat of the 19th century – with finger-flinging virtuosity in their version of Mchedelov’s themes on his Caprice No. 24. An original arrangement of songs from the popular apocalyptic space-rock band Muse comes next in “Musings.” The quartet concludes with a few Latin selections: first a cumbia dance, then a work dedicated Mexico’s mixed European and American Indian (Mestizo) heritage, and finally a brilliant Spanish dance from La Vida Breve, an opera about forbidden love. Whether bright or stormy, the varied subject matter of this exciting program turns to heavenly bliss with these earthly harp angels' every note.

G.F. Handel
Hornpipe from The Water Music, arr. M.L. Williams

Jules Massenet
Ballet Suite from Le Cid, arr. M.L. Williams
I. Castillane
II. Arragonaise
III. Aubade
IV. Madrilene

Mikhail Mchedelov
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, arr. M.L. Williams

M.L. Williams
Musings
I.
II. Lent
III. Con brio

Alfredo Ortiz
Cumbia Deliciosa

Gerardo Tamez
Tierra Mestiza

Manuel de Falla Spanish Dance No. 1 from La Vida Breve, arr. M.L. Williams

Harpists:
Marguerite Lynn Williams
Emily Ann Granger
Kelsey Molinari
Cathy Litaker