In his book, HARPO SPEAKS, he said “The one running around and nuts, that’s the other guy. The one that sits down and plays the harp, that’s me.” When his grandparents emigrated from Russia his grandmother brought the harp along. We’re so blessed that she didn’t leave it behind. I love the look he always gets on his face when playing the harp. So quiet and contented.
@@Harfa_Traw Thank you. I must read _Harpo Speaks._ His musical gifts were amazing, and it's such an unusual and beautiful instrument. As they said on the Podcast, he runs around like a clownish Pan, chasing wood nymphs. The last thing you expect is for someone to fling a harp down into his path and transform him into an angel.
Yes, totally immersed! I saw him on an I Love Lucy rerun just this morning and he played a very unique version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Just gorgeous! And that same enraptured face.... only moments before and the moments after he was goofy and clowning, but during his performance it was just concentration and bliss. We just don't have artists like him anymore.
When I was a child, I couldn't wait for these musical interludes to be over. Now, I go back and rewatch the Marx Brother's old movies, and am entranced by their musical talent.
I love Harpo's mini journey to strictly adhere to the original music of the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. Then he moves it to his own jazz interpretation. This is a virtuoso harpist. Can you imagine what a full solo concert would have been like?
@@Zerbey Harpo Marx was initially self-taught but in 1928, he met Mildred Dilling in a music store in Manhattan where she was trying out a new harp. Harpo heard her playing Poenitz' "The Music Box" and asked her to teach him to play it. That was the beginning of a decades-long relationship during which Ms. Dilling coached Harpo on his technique. I attended a master class with Ms. Dilling a few years before she passed away and she told us about the time Harpo, who was living in Hollywood at the time, called her at 3:00AM New York time - he'd forgotten about the time difference - to ask her for help with a piece he was working on. He had put his telephone near his harp and she did the same. I can't imagine anyone other than a true friend and a dedicated teacher giving an on-the-spot lesson over the phone in the small hours.
I first read “Harpo Speaks” a long time ago when I was 14 years old (1974). He wrote about how his grandparents were stage performers back in Germany and that his grandmother’s harp sat in the corner with no strings. He grew up wondering how it sounded, thought that it was a cruel trick of fate that he couldn’t hear what it sounded like. So the very first time that he got a chance he had the harp restrung and taught himself to play.
In 55 years of living , endless learning/reading/discovering like a voracious shark, all along the way.....I've never come across the likes of this man. A sprite, a clown, an elf, a saint, imperfect in his perfection, I love and respect him as the greatest human I have ever come across. Read all you can about him and copy him. He is all I aspire to be, and never will be. The Earth was fortunate to have him walk on it, and he will be the first in Heaven I run to meet. A guiding light for all who would aspire to be good, fair, nice,and noble. We humans do not deserve the likes of him. After all I have learned, he reminds me of how frail and silly I am in comparison. He destroys my arrogance, and simply makes me love.
These so-called "celebrities" today don't have talent, just a bunch of losers wanting attention. They are all forgotten in 10 years because they really don't have a heart for people, just money and mansions.
I can name another person who had a talent similar to Harpo: Larry Fine of the Three Stooges. He could play a violin perfectly! He had learn how to because of an injury he suffered as a kid.
Because of Harpo as a child I fell in love with the Harp. He was amazing. He always touched my very heart and soul. I was only 6 or 7 and this man could make me tear up with his playing! Thank you Harpo it was my honor to watch you the man play this beautiful instrument!💕
As a child if I knew he was going to play his harp, I would run to sit in front of the television and closing my eyes, I would let him take me away... to me he was the perfect harp player.
eternal life is ONLY through believing THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION through JESUS CHRIST, for IT is the POWER of GOD unto SALVATION to every one that BELIEVES... 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4
The way he leans into it at the end... It's such a sense of affection. Almost like he drops character to pay homage to it. Being gifted is one thing. Loving what you are gifted at is beautiful.
Grew up enjoying the Marx Brothers amazing entertainment, Harpo was my favorite. He could run you through, so many emotions and always leave you smiling.
Nearly fifty years ago I was at a party in a large house in London. In one of the rooms the telly was on with 'A Night At The Opera' playing in the background. All these ?!$$ed people were (half) watching, laughing and talking. Being a huge fan of the Marx Bros I sat down to watch even though it was noisy (in the days before video, you had to catch your favourites where you could). When Harpo started playing 'Alone' on the harp, the room fell silent with everyone watching. He finished playing and everybody went back to being noisy again. Amazing.
I’m one of the younger folks (15) and night at the opera is my favorite film! Hopefully it’s nice to know the young ones of today still know the classics. I’ve shown that one to all my friends :) now we quote Groucho all the time!
Don't you love how he takes one song and plays around with it, changing rhythms, keys, the works. Listening to him and watching him (thanks for the great transfer, themethodman87) always, always brings a smile to my face and peace in my heart.
This is one of very few times in my life I can't find the words to describe this man, his comedy and especially his music. All I can think of is fantastic.
I'm lucky to have lived in the days of black and white TV. I remember this show and others like it. The classics are slowly going away but will never die. I will forever keep those days in my heart and memories.
Harpo was the funniest and the most naturally talented of all the Marx brothers. He radiated a childlike joy that came through in everything he did. He proved that you didn’t have to say a word to get people to understand you. Another great who understood that was Lon Chaney Sr.
I never watched the Marx brothers movies but still liked Harpo. I had no idea what a fantastic master of the harp he was until I was flipping channels one day. I saw him looking at the harp and thought it was going to be a comedy bit. I was totally captivated by this mans talent. I could watch this all day.
After watching the Marx Brothers my father had to convince my that he was really playing . Then as i got older and read more about them and found what Master musicians they were .Even Groucho was a pretty good guitar player . What a family so talented and funny as hell
@@gerrybongohead Hi, I've never heard this, but keep in mind that Harpo played a concert harp, which has numerous pedals (I think at least 7?) which control small rotating discs with (rubber-covered?) metal pegs which stop the strings at various intervals, raising or lowering the pitch. I don't think it's shown in this footage, but when he plays, like any concert harpist, Harpo's legs and feet are moving furiously working the pedals at lightening speed to change the notes for each different chord/scale he plays. I would imagine Harpo thus tuned his harp like a normal concert harp, probably to A-440 as the pitch had been officially raised in 1928 to this from the earlier standard of A-435. It's not like a banjo or guitar where there are only a few strings and lots of fretting needed by one hand... the harpist does all their own 'fretting' hands-free, using the pedals. Also, I imagine there's a limited range in which you could tune a concert harp up or down (ESPECIALLY up), before it collapses due to the overloaded string tension. It's more like tuning a piano than a guitar in this respect... all the tension of all those strings really adds up. If Harpo played what I would term a 'natural' or older-style harp, with no pedal mechanism, such as an Irish harp, I would imagine he then would have tuned it according to his taste and maybe retuned it, but those are smaller instruments that are probably a bit more forgiving of this. I'm not a harpist so cannot comment further on that topic, and invite real harpists to weigh in. I don't know where Harpo got his style from, but some clues may be found not only from studying 'legit' classical harp literature and piano literature, and also the swing-era jazz and pop piano styles of Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Ted Fio Rito, Frankie Carle, Eddie Heywood, Jr. and others, but especially in studying another jazz harpist who was active at this same time, Casper Reardon (who may be heard in at least a few dozen recordings here on UA-cam and also on SoundCloud, and also in a film short showing him playing). Here is a GREAT playlist of wonderful Casper Reardon recordings: soundcloud.com/peter-mintun/sets/casper-reardon-harp Besides Casper Reardon, there was also a contemporary of Harpo's named George Lyons, a ragtime harpist in vaudeville, who wrote a couple rags and a few dozen songs with his duo-partner Bob Yosco (who was a mandolin and 'cello player; both of them also sang, reportedly very well). I don't know how many encounters Harpo had with George Lyons (I haven't yet read his autobiography), but both being around the same age and in vaudeville at the same time, their paths MUST have crossed at least a couple times. I know of no commercial 78 recordings by Mr. Lyons or the duo, but he was supposed to have made a film short playing the harp in 1929, which I would LOVE to see!!! Here's their Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyons_and_Yosco Finally, there was also the Automatic Harp, invented by J. W. Whitlock of Rising Sun, Indiana, made by his company in their small factory, and licensed to and sold exclusively by Wurlitzer in circa the 1906-1918 period. The rolls were made by Ms. Whitlock using published popular piano and piano/vocal sheet music, via her own drafting-board arrangements, I think. Several mechanical music collectors have commented on these arrangements sounding more like a 'piano' than a 'harp' (or making the harp sound like a guitar when played on it), but I don't know how many of them are actually harpists. I've only heard a few tunes on a couple of these instruments so can't comment further, except to say the few dozen left are neat relics of a bygone age, can still play new arrangements as well as the old ones, and are all worth saving... I wish more were left! Full story here: www.rickcrandall.net/whitlock-automatic-harp/
I just love the Marx brothers it always feels great after watching somuch playfull joy..... Im very lucky to see this crazy freedom they gave to all of the ppl who loves humor.....
I wonder if people stood up and gave an ovation to this performance back when "Night at the Opera" was playing in the theaters. I would have felt compelled to do so myself. The first time I saw this as a kid, I cried. I realized that no matter how poor, goofy or different someone may seem to conventional society (or the "in crowd," as I defined it when I was young), they can still possess a great talent, an inner beauty that can be expressed in so many different ways. Thank you, Harpo Marx.
One of my favorite moments watching old classic tv or film was when Harpo showed up on Groucho's tv show as a surprise guest at a time when, apparently, Groucho hadn't seen him for quite a while. For a long moment the normally glib Groucho could only say "Oh, Harpo!" But with so much love in those two words that you couldn't help but shed some tears.
The piece is nine minutes long, too long for such a film. It has always been adapted many times, in cartoons, films etc. and all types of instrumentations, and many liberties. Here the touch of swing is not unpleasing. It is already very difficult on the piano, imagine on the harp (Liszt was sort of a record in virtuosity.) The genius of Harpo is not to let the difficulty show.
Have a look at the Tom and Jerry Verizon in “Cat Concerto” I guarantee you’ll never be able to listen to this piece of music in quite the same way again ;-) :-)
Brilliant man he was. I saw a documentary on the Marx Brothers when I was a boy. They said that when he came home he wanted to see a child in every window
Harpo's playing was always my favorite part of every Marx Bros. movie I ever watched. Something about that instrument and the music it produced fascinated me.
I always marveled at his playing the harp...Beautiful instrument, and from what I know not an easy one to play either... foot pedals and all !!!! Lovely Harpo!!!! We miss you!! 🥰😘
BRAVO! Read his autobiography, it is motivating. I grew up watching the Marx Brothers movies, I ditched school with others to learn and really respect musicians from all walks of life by seeing how they too, stop to listen and give them an audience. Thanks for posting.
I love these guys - all so individually talented in their own way and an unstoppable force of nature when allowed to share the screen, There will never be another family like them!
Ich habe Harpo echt geliebt. Keinen der Filme habe ich verpaßt. Marx Brothers waren meine Helden, dabei war ich damals gerade mal 13. Heute bin ich 55 und sie sind immer noch meine Helden ❤ Harpo vor allen anderen. Ich war immer anders als meine Altersgenossen. In ihm habe ich mich gespiegelt
I've always been crazy about Harpo's musicianship, and now I am rewarded by this UA-cam algorithm. And reading the comments I see 4the1stx that I am not alone in my reverence, & alot of you are youngsters too. Fantastic. "I would rather have Harpo harping in front o'me than2 have a frontal..." well you know the rest!
So beautiful! Harpo was my favorite of all the Marx brothers. In addition to being a wonderful comic, he was such a truly talented musician and beloved family man
Always my favourite Marx brother right from being a little girl, and Harpo’s playing then was just superb...so enjoyed it, Thankyou for sharing, 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘
I'm stumped over and over by the talent that was in all the Marx Brothers. Nobody has ever achieved such precision over such a wide variety of arts. They are absolutely amazing.
Every time I hear him play I cry
In his book, HARPO SPEAKS, he said “The one running around and nuts, that’s the other guy. The one that sits down and plays the harp, that’s me.”
When his grandparents emigrated from Russia his grandmother brought the harp along. We’re so blessed that she didn’t leave it behind.
I love the look he always gets on his face when playing the harp. So quiet and contented.
Which grandmother brought a harp from Russia? Minnie's mother or Frenchie's?
@@LeoOrientis Minnie’s mother, Fanny Schoenberg
@@Harfa_Traw Thank you. I must read _Harpo Speaks._ His musical gifts were amazing, and it's such an unusual and beautiful instrument. As they said on the Podcast, he runs around like a clownish Pan, chasing wood nymphs. The last thing you expect is for someone to fling a harp down into his path and transform him into an angel.
A true master at the harp. Stunning performance. I was clapping. Can you imagine playing by ear. He never read music. Amazing talent
He was truly amazing
Oh I don’t know he played by ear! Even more impressive how do you even get that brilliant
Beautiful. And look at Harpos face while he plays. No more clowning. Just total love for his music.
It was always my favourite part of the Marx Brothers' films --- when everything faded away and there was nothing left except Harpo and his harp'
Yes.
Elisabeth4844
So well put.
Nedra Leggett, I so agree. Harpo was serious about playing the harpo and in this video, he face says it all.
Yes, totally immersed! I saw him on an I Love Lucy rerun just this morning and he played a very unique version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Just gorgeous! And that same enraptured face.... only moments before and the moments after he was goofy and clowning, but during his performance it was just concentration and bliss. We just don't have artists like him anymore.
One of the most underrated musical geniuses to ever live...and yet so self deprecating and humble...and funny...God bless you Harpo!!! (Thank you)
When I was a child, I couldn't wait for these musical interludes to be over. Now, I go back and rewatch the Marx Brother's old movies, and am entranced by their musical talent.
I was the opposite. I liked the clowning, but when Harpo played, I was mesmerized.
I love Harpo's mini journey to strictly adhere to the original music of the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. Then he moves it to his own jazz interpretation. This is a virtuoso harpist. Can you imagine what a full solo concert would have been like?
Another comedy sketch?
Whith a sleevefull of silverware
Truly a genius of music, comedy, and all emotion
He shows his real genius at 2:30 when he does a synchopated improvization on the classic piece. Just brilliant. What a gift he was and still is.
Nobody else played the harp like he did, he was entirely self taught and tuned it completely differently to how it was supposed to be.
Hey are you still alive
@@Zerbey Harpo Marx was initially self-taught but in 1928, he met Mildred Dilling in a music store in Manhattan where she was trying out a new harp. Harpo heard her playing Poenitz' "The Music Box" and asked her to teach him to play it. That was the beginning of a decades-long relationship during which Ms. Dilling coached Harpo on his technique.
I attended a master class with Ms. Dilling a few years before she passed away and she told us about the time Harpo, who was living in Hollywood at the time, called her at 3:00AM New York time - he'd forgotten about the time difference - to ask her for help with a piece he was working on. He had put his telephone near his harp and she did the same. I can't imagine anyone other than a true friend and a dedicated teacher giving an on-the-spot lesson over the phone in the small hours.
@@royjones1039 That’s an amazing story!!!!
I first read “Harpo Speaks” a long time ago when I was 14 years old (1974). He wrote about how his grandparents were stage performers back in Germany and that his grandmother’s harp sat in the corner with no strings. He grew up wondering how it sounded, thought that it was a cruel trick of fate that he couldn’t hear what it sounded like. So the very first time that he got a chance he had the harp restrung and taught himself to play.
Such a great book. What a life he had!
In 55 years of living , endless learning/reading/discovering like a voracious shark, all along the way.....I've never come across the likes of this man. A sprite, a clown, an elf, a saint, imperfect in his perfection, I love and respect him as the greatest human I have ever come across. Read all you can about him and copy him. He is all I aspire to be, and never will be. The Earth was fortunate to have him walk on it, and he will be the first in Heaven I run to meet. A guiding light for all who would aspire to be good, fair, nice,and noble. We humans do not deserve the likes of him. After all I have learned, he reminds me of how frail and silly I am in comparison. He destroys my arrogance, and simply makes me love.
Well said, he was most certainly a incredible man.
Marx is love. Marx is life.
+triarii11 STFU
+triarii11 STFU
Agree :))))))
Back when movie stars had more amazing musical talent stashed in their back pocket, than our strictly-musical celebrities possess today.
These so-called "celebrities" today don't have talent, just a bunch of losers wanting attention. They are all forgotten in 10 years because they really don't have a heart for people, just money and mansions.
That’s the vaudeville talent. Had to stay on top of it to stay in the circuit.
Yes yes you were born in the wrong generation and all that, truly you are a culturally superior ubermensch.
@@tomaspabon2484 every generation is dumb, from the antiquity to today. Even myths display morons and moronity at their core.
I can name another person who had a talent similar to Harpo: Larry Fine of the Three Stooges. He could play a violin perfectly! He had learn how to because of an injury he suffered as a kid.
That's a bucketload of talent in one family
The concentration when he plays is really something and he's in another place altogether.
Happy 134th Birthday in Heaven Harpo Marx.
Because of Harpo as a child I fell in love with the Harp. He was amazing. He always touched my very heart and soul.
I was only 6 or 7 and this man could make me tear up with his playing!
Thank you Harpo it was my honor to watch you the man play this beautiful instrument!💕
As a child if I knew he was going to play his harp, I would run to sit in front of the television and closing my eyes, I would let him take me away... to me he was the perfect harp player.
I will consider myself to have reached the highest plane of the afterlife if Harpo is there giving lessons to the angels.
Hey are you still alive
@@dulapeep1450 probably not, he's in the afterlife now
So that's why his name was "harpo" and he "played" along. 😉😁👌🎵🎼🎶
Harpo ! a guy that was bullied at school so much he left early, and look at him play like a pro ! he got one over the bullies ! What a guy !
Harpo was always my favorite
Some people need to live for ever. These brothers are one of them.
I agree whole-heartedly. Harpo for sure. There are a few others as well. Charles Stanley,
eternal life is ONLY through believing THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION through JESUS CHRIST, for IT is the POWER of GOD unto SALVATION to every one that BELIEVES...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4
You mean they are three of them
Manch... You said it right! Such pure gold lost. You'll never find musicians or comedians like them. Breaks my heart.
MRGF78 The Marx brothers were Jewish.
The way he leans into it at the end... It's such a sense of affection. Almost like he drops character to pay homage to it.
Being gifted is one thing. Loving what you are gifted at is beautiful.
Christopher C. Cooper, I noticed that to. His face and the way his body caresses the harp says it all about how much he loved playing the harp.
So very well stated, and in Harpo's face you see the truth in your words.
No need to say something more
They said it all . Thank you.
Lovely comment Christopher. He was a sublime musician.
It’s like watching a massage
Grew up enjoying the Marx Brothers amazing entertainment, Harpo was my favorite. He could run you through, so many emotions and always leave you smiling.
My dad talks about the Marx brothers. This is the first I’ve seen of it and I had no idea! Simply fantastic!!
Nearly fifty years ago I was at a party in a large house in London. In one of the rooms the telly was on with 'A Night At The Opera' playing in the background. All these ?!$$ed people were (half) watching, laughing and talking. Being a huge fan of the Marx Bros I sat down to watch even though it was noisy (in the days before video, you had to catch your favourites where you could). When Harpo started playing 'Alone' on the harp, the room fell silent with everyone watching. He finished playing and everybody went back to being noisy again. Amazing.
I’m one of the younger folks (15) and night at the opera is my favorite film! Hopefully it’s nice to know the young ones of today still know the classics. I’ve shown that one to all my friends :) now we quote Groucho all the time!
@@clownfromclowntown awesome that people still watch them.
Great story!!!!!
@@clownfromclowntown this scene is from "A day in Casablanca"
incredible. pure and raw... the beauty of this stops the breath. Thank you Harpo for playing to us and to the Angels :) RIP Sir.. you did it right :)
Hey are you still alive
Don't you love how he takes one song and plays around with it, changing rhythms, keys, the works. Listening to him and watching him (thanks for the great transfer, themethodman87) always, always brings a smile to my face and peace in my heart.
Harpo is one of my very favorite people in the whole world!
He was a master comedian and musician extraordinaire and should never be forgotten
This is one of very few times in my life I can't find the words to describe this man, his comedy and especially his music. All I can think of is fantastic.
Oh my God, that's just... that's just... that's one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Genius after all these years its still brilliant!
I'm lucky to have lived in the days of black and white TV. I remember this show and others like it. The classics are slowly going away but will never die. I will forever keep those days in my heart and memories.
I'm only 23 but I grew up with vhs tapes of their films, was always and will always be brilliant
The original and the classic, Magnificent Harpo Marx,
Nearly 100 years later
A fitting name to the greatest harp player I've ever heard. The joy he brings without a word is amazing
I have loved these guys since I was a child. Never get tired of watching them! 💜💜💜
Harpo was the funniest and the most naturally talented of all the Marx brothers. He radiated a childlike joy that came through in everything he did. He proved that you didn’t have to say a word to get people to understand you. Another great who understood that was Lon Chaney Sr.
Seamlessly blends a romantic classical and ragtime jazz, on a harp...
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏i felt like that needed a standing ovation he switched melodies like 5 times.... he could kept playing for hours
I never watched the Marx brothers movies but still liked Harpo. I had no idea what a fantastic master of the harp he was until I was flipping channels one day. I saw him looking at the harp and thought it was going to be a comedy bit. I was totally captivated by this mans talent. I could watch this all day.
Love Harpo and all the Marx brothers they were truly amazing and funny
I love Harpo catching the feather in his shoe...Amazing Entertainer all-around
So nice to see the best of the best again and again...Thank you for posting it!!!
Hi are you there
Such a beautiful talented man, thanks to my parents, I was introduced to the Marx Brothers, and there will never be anything like them xx
STUNNING.!!!
FA-BU-LOUS.!!!
INCREDIBLE.!!!
Those were the days of a kind of actors, that just did not exist today!!!
After watching the Marx Brothers my father had to convince my that he was really playing . Then as i got older and read more about them and found what Master musicians they were .Even Groucho was a pretty good guitar player . What a family so talented and funny as hell
Groucho was the best singer imo.
I love how he jazzes up the Rhapsody in the middle and puts all those "streamline" Swing Era chords on it.
@@gerrybongohead Hi, I've never heard this, but keep in mind that Harpo played a concert harp, which has numerous pedals (I think at least 7?) which control small rotating discs with (rubber-covered?) metal pegs which stop the strings at various intervals, raising or lowering the pitch. I don't think it's shown in this footage, but when he plays, like any concert harpist, Harpo's legs and feet are moving furiously working the pedals at lightening speed to change the notes for each different chord/scale he plays.
I would imagine Harpo thus tuned his harp like a normal concert harp, probably to A-440 as the pitch had been officially raised in 1928 to this from the earlier standard of A-435. It's not like a banjo or guitar where there are only a few strings and lots of fretting needed by one hand... the harpist does all their own 'fretting' hands-free, using the pedals.
Also, I imagine there's a limited range in which you could tune a concert harp up or down (ESPECIALLY up), before it collapses due to the overloaded string tension. It's more like tuning a piano than a guitar in this respect... all the tension of all those strings really adds up. If Harpo played what I would term a 'natural' or older-style harp, with no pedal mechanism, such as an Irish harp, I would imagine he then would have tuned it according to his taste and maybe retuned it, but those are smaller instruments that are probably a bit more forgiving of this.
I'm not a harpist so cannot comment further on that topic, and invite real harpists to weigh in.
I don't know where Harpo got his style from, but some clues may be found not only from studying 'legit' classical harp literature and piano literature, and also the swing-era jazz and pop piano styles of Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Ted Fio Rito, Frankie Carle, Eddie Heywood, Jr. and others, but especially in studying another jazz harpist who was active at this same time, Casper Reardon (who may be heard in at least a few dozen recordings here on UA-cam and also on SoundCloud, and also in a film short showing him playing). Here is a GREAT playlist of wonderful Casper Reardon recordings:
soundcloud.com/peter-mintun/sets/casper-reardon-harp
Besides Casper Reardon, there was also a contemporary of Harpo's named George Lyons, a ragtime harpist in vaudeville, who wrote a couple rags and a few dozen songs with his duo-partner Bob Yosco (who was a mandolin and 'cello player; both of them also sang, reportedly very well). I don't know how many encounters Harpo had with George Lyons (I haven't yet read his autobiography), but both being around the same age and in vaudeville at the same time, their paths MUST have crossed at least a couple times. I know of no commercial 78 recordings by Mr. Lyons or the duo, but he was supposed to have made a film short playing the harp in 1929, which I would LOVE to see!!! Here's their Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyons_and_Yosco
Finally, there was also the Automatic Harp, invented by J. W. Whitlock of Rising Sun, Indiana, made by his company in their small factory, and licensed to and sold exclusively by Wurlitzer in circa the 1906-1918 period. The rolls were made by Ms. Whitlock using published popular piano and piano/vocal sheet music, via her own drafting-board arrangements, I think. Several mechanical music collectors have commented on these arrangements sounding more like a 'piano' than a 'harp' (or making the harp sound like a guitar when played on it), but I don't know how many of them are actually harpists. I've only heard a few tunes on a couple of these instruments so can't comment further, except to say the few dozen left are neat relics of a bygone age, can still play new arrangements as well as the old ones, and are all worth saving... I wish more were left! Full story here: www.rickcrandall.net/whitlock-automatic-harp/
This concept of music is gaining popularity today in classic music. This shows what a timeless genius he was.
Wow god whatever what a fantastic opportunity for a movie .
I just love the Marx brothers it always feels great after watching somuch playfull joy..... Im very lucky to see this crazy freedom they gave to all of the ppl who loves humor.....
I miss the marx brother's and their music. The shit on tv nowadays. The kids miss out on a lot these day's. Good job pollies
Yes so right
Such a brilliant man. Harpo speaks is worth a read!
A pure genius!!! Thank you Harpo!!!
He was a master and genius for musical talent. Amazing and uncanny skill. He was gifted.
I wonder if people stood up and gave an ovation to this performance back when "Night at the Opera" was playing in the theaters. I would have felt compelled to do so myself. The first time I saw this as a kid, I cried. I realized that no matter how poor, goofy or different someone may seem to conventional society (or the "in crowd," as I defined it when I was young), they can still possess a great talent, an inner beauty that can be expressed in so many different ways. Thank you, Harpo Marx.
This is from "A Night In Casablanca".
@@eblackadder3 Thank you. Duly noted.
OH BOY ! THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL ! 🥲
amazing. such talent ...in those fingers. they were ultra talented ..everyone of the marx brothers
The "like" button is not good enough to show how much I love this.
Simply beautiful, thanks for the upload.
Hi are you still alive
@@dulapeep1450 Hanging on.
How are you keeping?
Omg that is beautiful! He is amazing
One of my favorite moments watching old classic tv or film was when Harpo showed up on Groucho's tv show as a surprise guest at a time when, apparently, Groucho hadn't seen him for quite a while. For a long moment the normally glib Groucho could only say "Oh, Harpo!" But with so much love in those two words that you couldn't help but shed some tears.
Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2... with a few 'liberties' in the arrangement. ;)
Harpo always took liberties ;)
and not just with the music. But who cares? He played divinely.
The piece is nine minutes long, too long for such a film. It has always been adapted many times, in cartoons, films etc. and all types of instrumentations, and many liberties. Here the touch of swing is not unpleasing. It is already very difficult on the piano, imagine on the harp (Liszt was sort of a record in virtuosity.) The genius of Harpo is not to let the difficulty show.
Have a look at the Tom and Jerry Verizon in “Cat Concerto” I guarantee you’ll never be able to listen to this piece of music in quite the same way again ;-) :-)
A few liberties...and the silverware! :-)
Brilliant man he was.
I saw a documentary on the Marx Brothers when I was a boy. They said that when he came home he wanted to see a child in every window
Him catching the feather with his worn out shoe, thats just as good as it gets lol.
this has alway been my favorite rendition of this piece
There films and music will last forever. They should show all their films and music again, they will be enjoyed and admired by a whole new generation.
Anytime I watch a Marx Brothers movie, I look forward to Harpo playing the harp: lovely.
What are you doing after 11yrs?
when harpo played his harp, it was a dream it was
Harpo, Harpo, we are the angels
where did you get that sound so fine😊
Harpo's playing was always my favorite part of every Marx Bros. movie I ever watched. Something about that instrument and the music it produced fascinated me.
I always marveled at his playing the harp...Beautiful instrument, and from what I know not an easy one to play either... foot pedals and all !!!! Lovely Harpo!!!! We miss you!! 🥰😘
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BRAVO! Read his autobiography, it is motivating. I grew up watching the Marx Brothers movies, I ditched school with others to learn and really respect musicians from all walks of life by seeing how they too, stop to listen and give them an audience. Thanks for posting.
Arthur - Loved to hear him play.
We stand in awe of this Artist. Artistry indeed ! Rock & Roll in comparison pales miserably. Real Music
Music becomes “wonderful” when the harp gets involved! That and pizzicato strings.
I love these guys - all so individually talented in their own way and an unstoppable force of nature when allowed to share the screen, There will never be another family like them!
I love how he goes Italian then jazz then Italian then fades it back into the element of his stage character
An artist for all time inviting us to Journey with Joy. Perfect. Thankx H
Underbart att se och höra, han var en briljant harpenist
I love Harpo playing the harp. Look forward to it in all their movies
Love you, Harpo...
Ich habe Harpo echt geliebt. Keinen der Filme habe ich verpaßt. Marx Brothers waren meine Helden, dabei war ich damals gerade mal 13. Heute bin ich 55 und sie sind immer noch meine Helden ❤ Harpo vor allen anderen. Ich war immer anders als meine Altersgenossen. In ihm habe ich mich gespiegelt
I've always been crazy about Harpo's musicianship, and now I am rewarded by this UA-cam algorithm. And reading the comments I see 4the1stx that I am not alone in my reverence, & alot of you are youngsters too. Fantastic. "I would rather have Harpo harping in front o'me than2 have a frontal..." well you know the rest!
I love it where he segues into the syncopated jazz section.
Bravo, Harpo!
Hey are you still alive
@@dulapeep1450 Me?
Just barely.
Such beautiful playing. Harpo was definitely a very interesting man, to say the least.
If this isn't playing at my funeral, I'm not going.
So beautiful! Harpo was my favorite of all the Marx brothers. In addition to being a wonderful comic, he was such a truly talented musician and beloved family man
Always my favourite Marx brother right from being a little girl, and Harpo’s playing then was just superb...so enjoyed it, Thankyou for sharing, 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘
Same here. I think it's because little kids 'get' Harpo. Groucho's double entendre and Chico's mangling of the language was not accessible to them.
That was crazy and amazing. It was cramazing! 😄🎶🎵🎼
You know he was gifted without a doubt and I love to watch him
Harpo Marx playing the harp. the music RAPSODIA HUNGARA N 02 DE FRANZ LISZT. It was beautiful.
Gotta love it when someone can tear the guts out of a piano, turn it on its side and play beautiful music on it!
He played a real instrument that's why he's brilliant
He was the best that ever lived
thanks for sharing this with others, this Harpo was pure genius, not just a talented comedian/actor also he was a fine musician.
Hey, are you still alive
@@dulapeep1450 If you mean Harpo, no he and his brothers have all passed on.
The Jimi Hendrix of the harp!🎼👌💕Luv these bros... always will👌
They were all so incredibly talented!!
his beautiful harp echos in memories of yore
I'm stumped over and over by the talent that was in all the Marx Brothers. Nobody has ever achieved such precision over such a wide variety of arts. They are absolutely amazing.
How can someone dislike this??? Harpo is amazing !!!
Hey are you still alive
@@dulapeep1450 yes
I remember watching him play that harp when I was a little boy and he just amazed me that man was so talented
The greatest man who ever lived.
Harpo Marx, wonderful clown. I fell in love with the harp the first time I saw him as a child.
Behind his silly-ness .......BEAUTIFUL GENIUS 😔😔