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World Harp Congress, Inc

LC control no.n 88043677
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingWorld Harp Congress, Inc.
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Variant(s)WHC
Congrès mondial de la harpe
Congreso Mundial de Arpa
Welt-Harfen-Kongress
Congresso mondiale di arpa
Shih chieh shu chʻin ta hui
Kokusai Hāpu Kaigi
Mezhdunarodnyĭ kongress arfistov
Beginning date1981
Field of activityHarp
Found inWorld Harp Congress review, May 1986: t.p. (World Harp Congress, Congrès mondial de la harpe, Congreso Mundial de Arpa, Welt-Harfen-Kongress, Congresso mondiale di arpa; Shih chieh shu chʻin ta hui; Kokusai Hāpu Kaigi Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa arfĭstov [i.e. arfistov]) p. 3 (WHC)
World Harp Congress website, viewed December 13, 2011 (World Harp Congress, founded in 1981)
World Harp Congress website, viewed October 22, 2018 (World Harp Congress; the World Harp Congress, Inc. a private non-profit organization, was founded in 1981 and incorporated in 1982; it originated from the Harpweeks in The Netherlands; the WHC is held every three years around the world and seeks to promote the exchange of ideas, stimulate contact, and encourage the composition of new music for the harp)
Wikipedia, October 22, 2018 (World Harp Congress; the World Harp Congress, Inc. a private non-profit organization, was founded in 1981 as an outgrowth of the International Harp Weeks held in The Netherlands for twenty years under the leadership of Phia Berghout and Maria Korchinska; the organization holds a triennial harp festival (which is also called the World Harp Congress) and promotes the performance of new music for the harp; the World Harp Congress also publishes a biannual journal entitled the World Harp Congress Review)