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Strings of Passion Intro ~ Webinar Replay
So many people asked for the replay of this ‘Strings of Passion Intro’ webinar that I’m putting it here in my blog for people to watch. It gives an overview of the 7 Strings of Passion – the foundation of my new 10-Week ‘Strings of Passion’ creativity program...
Join Me FREE: New Year’s Day (and meet your muse)
It’s New Year’s Eve. Let me ask you something: Does 2017 feel like a new beginning … or the beginning of the end? OK … now take a deep breath. Whatever’s happening on the OUTside, INside is where you start changing your world – and...
Your job: the articulation of human experience
The articulation of human experience is your job. It is your whole job as an artist. (thus said my inner Nanny to me last night) Well … that’s almost your whole job. The other part is sharing it. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Remember …...
You are a catalyst for belonging
You are a catalyst for belonging. When you step onto a stage – you make a place for each person in the audience to belong there. And because all the world is a stage, no matter what you’re doing, you can step onto it. You represent your audience on that stage....
Do we shape art … or does it shape us?
When we have an artistic impulse, sometimes we KNOW what it’s pulling us towards – our creation already exists inside us, and our quest is to manifest that imagined reality in the physical universe. It’s kind of like the Pinocchio story, but from...
One Happy Fellow – Thanks to the Mass Artist Fellowship Program
More than 30 years ago I came to Boston from California, following a boyfriend who was in Harvard Med School. He left, I stayed. It’s not that I fell in love with Boston weather, politics or architecture. One thing convinced me to stay. The arts council had a...
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...
An Interview with DHC
I recently got an email from a student asking for an interview. It went kind of like this: Dear Deborah Henson-Conant,n I am a first-year music student. I have a CD of yours which you signed to me and I received through my first harp teacher, who told me you would be...
Tucker Stilley – New Jack Rasputin in Cambridge
I had coffee last week with Rachael Solem, who’s hosting an exhibit of artist Tucker Stilley’s works at the Harding House in Cambridge, MA. I’d gotten the postcard, an image of human eyes looking out of a page of colors, but I didn’t really...
