What is DONE? Completing “The Golden Cage”

What is DONE? Completing “The Golden Cage”

Sometimes you have to crash and burn before you learn to fly You gotta burn your fear in that fire Sometimes you have to lose your way before you find you heart Then you go higher and higher and higher … Then you fly … Little by little I’m moving...
What was your favorite marketing collaboration?

What was your favorite marketing collaboration?

Hint: it included a herd of harpists crashing a symphony performance … but let’s go back to the beginning. My collaboration with the Tacoma Symphony a few years ago comes immediately to mind when someone asks me about best experiences collaborating. This...
Piano Reduction!

Piano Reduction!

No, it’s not the Steinway Diet Plan, or a toy piano. A “Piano Reduction” is a ‘reduction’ of a symphonic piece of music into a part that’s playable on piano. It takes all the music from the whole orchestra and reduces it onto two...

Leading from the Harp

You see it in the back – waaaaay in the back of the orchestra – but when have you seen a harpist leading an orchestra? Not just out of the background – but WAY in the front? I saw it first in my mind. Nearly two decades ago.  It was so real –...
And I adored it

And I adored it

I have never heard a conductor called “adorable” and I, myself, have rarely been called adorable – but that’s what I kept hearing after I conducted my original concerto “Soñando en Español” a little over a week ago in New Orleans with members of the Louisiana...
Holding the Baton

Holding the Baton

I had my orchestral conducting debut two days ago in New Orleans with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Gala Concert of the American Harp Conference. This is the blog I meant to send that morning – only I got a little preoccupied – so...

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