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Center, from left: Stacey Berkley, Charlene Conner, Nany Ann Gillian
Bottom: Stacey Berkley
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Well, the Martha Stewart of Episcopalia has done it again. Sunday, Feb, 17th was the second of St. Andrew's Concert Series. And what a great event it was. The concert was supurb as well as the beautiful reception afterward.
This concert was a Heavenly Harps belated Valentine concert. The musicians were the South Florida Harp Trio. They were wonderful! All three are sought after around the world and are a part of orchestras in Europe and the U.S.
The lead harpist in Sunday afternoon's concert was Stacey Berkley, a graduate of the University of Miami School of Music where she studied with renowned harpitst. Edward Vito. She has won many harp awards around the wold and has been a featured performer with the World Harp Congress in Prague, Czech Republic. She has been on public television many times and has cut two CD's. I bought two which Stacey autographed for me.
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about this upcoming concert with a St. Mark's friend, Bruce.
He was planning to go as well and he talked about having heard Marcos Vega, another South Florida harpist. Actually, I had forgot about the wonderful harpist Larry and I had heard at Easter Brunch at the Breakers years ago. Bruce let me borrow his two Vega CD's to burn on my ipod.
I hope these three wonderful and talented women cut a CD together. It's a rare opportunity to hear a concert of only harps. There is only one, maybe two harps used in an orchestra. So last night's concert was really something special.
