Jun 15, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Hip Harp Academy |
What would you do, if you had the skills, tools and confidence to improvise freely, to express yourself without having to read the notes the notes on a page of music – or constantly google how to use some app or device? What if you could simply Express...
Apr 13, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Hip Harp Academy |
Ever since I was a kid, I self-identified as a COMPOSER. Other kids sent off for dolls or kits. I sent songs to the copyright office. My big thrill was to open the mailbox and get that copyright form back, signed and stamped. Ask me how I got two last-names? Well,...
Mar 12, 2020 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Composing, Harping & Harpists, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
This is a blog series featuring performances of my harp showpiece “Baroque Flamenco” by other musicians. Click HERE to link to the overview blog Baroque Flamenco Around the World. Featured Performers: Robbin Gordon-Cartier and her students from Cicely L. Tyson School...
Nov 1, 2019 | Birthdays, Composing, Recordings |
Congratulations! You made it this far! This is my ALTERNATIVE Birthday song page. And in honor of my Birthday month, I’m sharing everything you need to listen to it, learn it, sing it, play it on piano, share it with others… and even sing it in FRENCH!...
Oct 24, 2019 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Composing, Harps, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
This is a blog series featuring performances of my harp showpiece “Baroque Flamenco” by other musicians. Click HERE to link to the overview blog Baroque Flamenco Around the World. Featured Performer: Ruth Lee, UK BRIEF BIO or DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU DO:Ruth Lee is a...
Oct 14, 2019 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
“Baroque Flamenco” is one of my most-performed pieces and I LOVE hearing all the different ways people play it. I also love hearing about each person’s journey with piece, what they’ve learned from it and how they make it their own. We...
Sep 1, 2019 | Composer, Composing |
Sylvia Woods asked me to write an article about my life and my composing for harp to accompany a sale she was having on my sheet music downloads in her store earlier this year. This is the original version of the article along with all the photos I offered her....
Feb 26, 2019 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Mom, Performance |
“The Nightingale” is one of my most-requested songs – one of those songs that comes out whole, that just seems like a simple statement of truth. I wrote it in memory of my mother’s voice – and since I published it years ago, harpists all over the...
Dec 18, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects |
When I create a show, I almost always work with an visual artist who brings the show alive for me visually with original illustrations. But first I draw them myself. In this video I’m showing you the drawings I made for “The Golden Cage” and then how...
Dec 13, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects, Uncategorized |
This is a ‘work-video’ of my musical “The Golden Cage” that I made for my development collaborator, Paul Gordon. It’s a 12-minute ‘short story’ version – or musical synopsis – of the 75-minute, 2-character show....
