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The Nightingale – Performances around the World

The Nightingale – Performances around the World

Feb 26, 2019 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Mom, Performance | 9 comments

“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...
Artist Sketches of The Golden Cage (including mine!)

Artist Sketches of The Golden Cage (including mine!)

Dec 18, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects | 0 comments

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...
12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis

12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis

Dec 13, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects, Uncategorized | 2 comments

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....
Baroque Flamenco … for YOU

Baroque Flamenco … for YOU

Sep 26, 2018 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses | 0 comments

(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...
You Have a Voice

You Have a Voice

May 4, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Events, Harping & Harpists | 0 comments

A few days ago I got a video from my performance last summer at a great little harp festival called “Somerset.” When I say, “little festival,” there are actually hundreds of people who attend Somerset Folk Harp Festival each year – harp players, spouses – and a big...
Meet the HARP-Breakers with Symphony TACOMA!

Meet the HARP-Breakers with Symphony TACOMA!

Apr 17, 2018 | Collaboration, Concerts, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performing | 0 comments

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...
Are you DONE??  or … How to get done without a deadline.

Are you DONE?? or … How to get done without a deadline.

Feb 27, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composer, Composing, Harness Your Muse, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse | 0 comments

Are you DONE? What does DONE even mean??? After decades of creating and performing my own music, my definition of ‘done’ means ‘in sharable form.’ My whole life I’ve been a composing-perfomer and ’til now, “Done” meant...
Do you read me?? What is readability?

Do you read me?? What is readability?

Sep 29, 2017 | Composing, Musical Theater, Projects | 3 comments

After spending the last 3 years editing and updating my musical “The Golden Cage,” music director Tim Maurice and I are diving into the process of editing another musical of mine, “The Zero Club.” It’s a musical about a troupe of anti-nuclear guerrilla-theater...
Speed Dating with Producers & Writers

Speed Dating with Producers & Writers

Jul 2, 2017 | Composing, Musical Theater | 1 comment

I was in NYC just one week ago today for a “Writer-Producer” speed date presented by the “Theater Resources Unlimited” (TruOnline.org) folks. It was GREAT!!!  Despite the fact that I locked myself out of my cellphone (I recommend NOT ever doing...

Alexandra – The Harp and Soul of a Composer

Dec 14, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning | 0 comments

In my online school Hip Harp Academy there’s always a creative challenge at the end of each course. I call it the “Final-Beginning” project – the project that ends the course and begins your relationship to this new skill. In the fall course, “Arrange Yourself,”...
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