Feb 26, 2019 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Mom, Performance |
“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...
Dec 18, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects |
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...
Dec 13, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects, Uncategorized |
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....
Sep 26, 2018 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
(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...
May 4, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Events, Harping & Harpists |
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...
Apr 17, 2018 | Collaboration, Concerts, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performing |
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...
Feb 27, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composer, Composing, Harness Your Muse, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
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...
Sep 29, 2017 | Composing, Musical Theater, Projects |
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...
Jul 2, 2017 | Composing, Musical Theater |
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...
Dec 14, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
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,”...
