History

Love of Harps began as an ensemble of seven harpists in the Naples area directed by Ralph Thomas, presenting a concert of their own arrangements in 1994, as the Palm Coast Chapter of the American Harp Society. Three of those harpists have remained with the ensemble: Leslie Gregory, Barbara Kraichy, and Laura Lou Roth. The three selections from that concert chosen to be viewed here as they were performed then include “Pavane” by an anonymous 17^th-century composer; “Adoration” from The Holy City by English organist Alfred Gaul (d. 1913), arranged by founding member Mary Johnson; and “Temptation,” arranged by Laura Lou’s mother Laura Erb from the hit song by Nacio Herb Brown in the 1933 movie Going Hollywood, ingeniously combined with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Rhapsody Espagnole. The four other performers are Amanda Clute, Mary Johnson, Linda Griffin, and Ralph Thomas, who contributed many of their arrangements.