Harpist Lavinia Meijer and composer JacobTV have been collaborating since 2008, when Jacob composed Cities change the songs of birds for her, a triptych about crack addicted homeless women in the streets of New York. At the World Harp Congress in Amsterdam that piece caused a scandal, when they were both accused of ‘musical terrorism’.
Kathleen Elate wrote at the time: “It is unfortunate that new harp music has stooped to this degree and brought the harp to the gutter. How low can you go Ms Meijer? The harp as we all know, is an instrument of beauty, of worship as depicted in the Bible. To see it in the centre of this atrocity just goes towards promoting more hate toward American society and is, in my opinion, just another form of Musical Terrorism!”
Lavinia was later part of the JacobTV Band in 2010, performing the evening length multimedia show with the same title. In 2011 Jacob composed Si Wang, for harp, percussion trio and multimedia, and for her Untitled series he wrote Pastorale and Perfect Person. Lavinia is currently touring the Netherlands with Entitled 3, including JacobTV’s Love Means, P T Army and The beauty of the world.
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