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Invention & Alchemy – Virtual Concert Finale (Press Release)
========FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PLEASE RUN UNTIL August 22, 2020======== She strides on stage like a rock-star, her head of long colorful braids flying – and she’s wearing a 32-string electric harp. She’s the woman from Boston who changed the way the world...
Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma
GRAMMY®-Nominated Recording Artist, Electric Harpist & Vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant A special Earth Day Celebration with Symphony Tacoma, Sarah Ioannides, Conductor Sun. April 22 at 2:30 PM Pantages Theater 901 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402 Click HERE for TIX Box...
The Birth of Baroque Flamenco
We interrupt this post for an important message: Hip Harp Academy Presents an intro to Hip Harp Academy Blues Jam HARP Challenge - July 1-8 Register Now for the Challenge (We first shared this post on April 21, 2016) Baroque Flamenco is one of my most famous and fiery...
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!
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 –...
Bring on the Mariachi Virgins!
Tuesday night, in Lakewood, Colorado harpist Rebecca Moritsky placed a set of parts for my concerto “Soñando en Español” onto the music stands of the Lakewood Symphony Orchestra. Earlier that day she and I had been texting madly to get her PC to open the...
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...Dogs of Somerville – Over the Top
If you have my 1985 straight-ahead-jazz album, ‘Round the Corner, you’ve heard the opening track, ‘Round the Corner, played as an instrumental jazz standard-style with harp, bass & drums. That jazz rendition is this song’s...
