Let's not pretend we're defending artistic purity.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Hawaiian word pō refers to a primal darkness from which all life flows. It’s not a fearsome ...

In the informative catalogue accompanying Jennie C. Jones’s “Ensemble” (on the Met’s roof), the artist talks about the inspiration behind her three large and elegant works, all acoustic ...

Vitaly Starikov ’s warm sound and pliable phrasing shifted the emphasis of Chopin’s Op 25 Études from the realm of technical studies to pure music. It wasn’t all perfect: I suspect that his occasional ...

She unveiled These (Mournful) Shores, another large and boxy piece based on the Aeolian harp, in 2020. Ensemble is also informed by its location: the roof of a famous museum.

Tantalizingly, visitors are asked not to touch the Aeolian harp, zither, and one-string, letting them be activated instead by the breeze.

Three maroon-and-red sculptures make up the piece: A trapezoidal zither, modeled on a low frequency-absorbing bass trap; a tall Aeolian harp, activated by the wind; and a doubled, leaning one ...

They call for a 30-foot-high entrance gate topped by an Aeolian harp. Wind passing through the harp will create music, a reminder that it was music that brought people together that night.

She developed a love for opera, and in sixth grade she heard a recording of Chopin’s Étude in A-flat Major (Op. 25, No.1), also called “Aeolian Harp,” and it awakened in her an appreciation ...

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Signed, Artist: Bill Wheeler, American (1940 - 2018), Title: Aeolian Harp I, Year: 1990, Medium: Collograph, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, CP 1, Size: 26 x 36 in. (66.04 x 91.44 cm), ...