Harpya
A musical tale
Harp. Written in 2024. Unpublished. Duration: 7m 20s.
I hadn’t written anything for solo harp in years when the opportunity to enter the eighth edition of the Ruth Inglefield Composition Contest presented itself. It was with immense pleasure that I immersed myself once again in the technical nuances and the incredible magic of this wonderful instrument’s tonal palette. My piece was not selected, but I derived great satisfaction from writing it, inspired by Raoul Servais’s masterpiece.
Harpya is a 1979 Belgian short comedy horror film written and directed by Raoul Servais, which tells the story of a man (...) who tries to live with a harpy (...), a mythical being that is half woman and half bird of prey with an insatiable appetite. The (...) film (...) explores authority and domination, themes Servais had earlier addressed on a larger, societal level but here applied to a personal relationship. Harpya won the 1979 Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. (Wikipedia)