Min Kym

Aug 23, 2024 | wordsonmusic.substack.com | Min Kym |Clemency Burton-Hill |Rebecca Franks

Harriet Constable. Image courtesy of Bloomsbury PublishingWhen I read about Harriet Constable’s new novel, The Instrumentalist, I immediately knew it was going straight on to my TBR list. The book heads to Vivaldi’s Venice and the Ospedale della Pietà, where one of the orphan girls, Anna Maria, became one of the composer’s star musicians. When she played, so it was said, ‘countless angels dare to hover near’.