Artist Sketches of The Golden Cage (including mine!)
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... read more
12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis
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.... read more
Baroque Flamenco … for YOU
(Some of the info in the post was shared in earlier posts in 2011, 2016 & 2017) I get to hear my music played by harpists all over the world. But there’s one piece in particular that I really have to show people how to play. That’s my fiery... read more
Collaboration: Composer, Performer, Symphony & Students
A New Collaboration … How it came about & how you can be part of it Sometimes education and performance can come together in wonderful ways. When harp soloist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier and composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) decided to... read more
Everybody has a Voice
From the April 7, 2018 weekly Ezine Do you wonder sometimes, like I do, about where your own creative voice fits? And sometimes whether it does at all? If so, I want to tell you that your voice – no matter what it sounds like – is part of the rich ensemble... read more
Thank You Tacoma!
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma... read more
What Does it Take to Get on Stage?
I’m playing with Symphony Tacoma this Sun. Apr. 22 in a special Earth Day concert in Seattle-Tacoma and I just landed in the beautiful Northwest. But yesterday … Yesterday it took only one minute for my Uber driver to get to my house — barely enough... read more
Meet the HARP-Breakers with Symphony TACOMA!
Meet the Nine HARPISTS who will join me onstage with SYMPHONY TACOMA Sun., Apr. 22, 2018 ~ 2:30 pm Stella DeSantis • Clara Fredrickson Grace Gallo • Jessica Gallo Meg Mann • Naomi Maxwell • Martina Preston Cassie Reinbolt Turner • Abigail Wooster In... read more
How do you get to Carnegie Hall – with a checklist?
OK, it’s not exactly Carnegie Hall – it’s the Pantages Theater in Tacoma, WA – and I’ll be there April 22 — but it’s the only joke I ever heard my grandmother tell, and I’m pretty sure she meant it as a lesson and not a joke: A tourist, lost in New... read more
