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DHC’s State o’ Zen Experiments
Last weekend my hard drive crashed. The holidays zoomed up with a vengeance. I realized I was way stressed out. So instead of ‘practicing’ my harp, I just sat down and played. Slowly, no agenda, nothing to prove – I just started playing. And I...
Original Musical “The Golden Cage” – Private Reading
I know it’s kind of a tease to tell you about an event that you probably can’t attend, but I’m so excited about this that I want to share it! On Sunday. Nov. 16 at 6:30pm, ??there’ll be a private, unstaged reading of my original musical...
Rhythm in Baroque Flamenco (1)
I always get excited whenever someone says “I have a dumb question” and this one came from Faye, a student in my “Baroque Flamenco Bootcamp” online course where harp players learn to play a dramatic showpiece of mine called “Baroque Flamenco.” She wrote:...
What’s Back to School for YOU?
It was an act of desperation – heading back to the classroom last night. I rode my bike down to the train station around 5pm, pulled it into the bike stable, crammed the lock through my helmet and headed into Boston on the T. I never like leaving my helmet...
Darth Vader & Doctor Who – get Married this Weekend
This weekend, Darth Vader, Doctor Who & James Bond walk down the aisle together in harpist Shelley Fairplay’s new concert-show “The Three Strands,” on the Great Glasshouse Stage at the National Botanical Garden of Wales. It’s the official premier of Shelley’s new...
Why Do We Need LIVE Art?
THIS IS A GUEST BLOG FROM Jeila Irdmusa. Jeila is the featured soprano in the 2014 concert of my song cycles at Boston University, “Mythic Women.” You can read more about that project in this blog: Help Wanted! Concert Name. DHC’s annual...
Headless Venus
She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it. We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...
The Mystery of Mastery
What’s that buzz about mastery? That it takes 10,000 hours to master anything? OK. Sure. I believe it. And the point of being a ‘master’ is …? I’m not dissing mastery. I’m just saying that – especially for adult learners – is it really about mastery? Or is it about...Clara Frederickson / Blues: Harp-Style Final Project
This blog is one of a series. Each includes one of the students’ final projects from my online course “Blues: Harp-Style” along with their answers to five questions I asked them to answer. You can you should check out the story of her first...
