You Have a Voice
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... 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 “Earth... read more
Are you DONE?? or … How to get done without a deadline.
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... read more
Do you read me?? What is readability?
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... read more
Speed Dating with Producers & Writers
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... read moreAlexandra – The Harp and Soul of a Composer
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,”... read more
The Golden Cage: Project Update
The last month has been an intense one working on my musical “The Golden Cage.” After a NYC reading earlier this year, I started rewriting the beginning and ending of the show. After NYC reading, I started rewriting the beginning & ending of the show.... read more
PlayActing
PlayActing. It’s how I’ve been writing music since I was a kid. I act it out. I play all the parts, and completely indulge myself in the emotions and physicalization. And now that I’m working on (hopefully final) revisions of “The Golden Cage,” pianist &... read more
What is DONE? Completing “The Golden Cage”
Sometimes you have to crash and burn before you learn to fly You gotta burn your fear in that fire Sometimes you have to lose your way before you find you heart Then you go higher and higher and higher … Then you fly … Little by little I’m moving... read more
