Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa |
The Holidays are upon us! I wish I could be with you around the table, or the fire, or the candles or the tree. But since I can’t, below are ways we CAN be together: my holiday collection of blogposts and some special offers for Harp players… Each year I...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, I Remember..., Random Thoughts |
When I was 12 and living in North Carolina, I wanted to send my grandparents a Hannukah card. I’d never celebrated the holiday, since only half my family was Jewish and that half – my mother – was a big Christmas decoration fan. But I’d decided...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Composing |
I was talking with one of the artists I coach a few years ago, when she asked me if I’d ever considered playing a holiday program and I said sure, that I’d written two holiday suites I really love – for harp and string orchestra, called “Season...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists |
Many years ago – before I had created my online “Hip Harp Academy” and my “Harness Your Muse” mentorship, the only way for people to study with me was to come live in my studio. It was a transformational mentorship experience with harpists from all around the world,...
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Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy, [Class-HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit |
Happy Holidays! I’m so happy to share some of the Final-Beginning Projects from 2018’s “Hip Harp Toolkit” program at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Holiday Greeting videos by members of Hip Harp Academy – harpists committed to liberating...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Holidays, Music |
Below is the story of how I wrote the round “Season of Celebration” for very special concert with string orchestra, harp and AUDIENCE. But first, you can hear me sing this song in the first snow of winter — and in 4-part harmony with myself –...
Dec 6, 2018 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Harping & Harpists, Holidays |
Holiday music was the reason I became a harpist … but maybe not for the reason you think. I could be pretty snobby about what I sang when I was a young adult, and when my college chorus was singing a Christmas song I didn’t like, I figured out THE BEST way...
Dec 23, 2017 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Holidays |
Everyone probably has their favorite masterpiece Christmas depictions, from the Adoration of the Magi by Leonardi da Vinci in 1481 to The Sistine Madonna by Raphael in 15 12. You can look at those here. But me … I like the drawings I commissioned years ago...
Dec 23, 2017 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Holidays, Recordings
A million years ago, when I lived in the S.F. Bay Area, I met a flutist named Schawkie Roth. I’d been playing the harp for maybe 5 or 6 years by that time, and Schawkie decided we were destined to play together. He was creating meditation music and I was...
Dec 22, 2017 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Holidays |
On Christmas Eve, I usually head to the hardware store and costume shop – my favorite last-minute shopping destinations. But this is also the time when I want to tell you about a Christmas tradition I may or may not indulge in this year. It’s the Guessing...
