Dec 8, 2021 | Composing, Current Events, Uncategorized |
I’m thrilled to tell you about a new project – and it’s the reason you may not have heard from me for a while – it’s all about my life-long passion project, the musical “THE GOLDEN CAGE,” which has just been selected for the new “CreateTheater Series” in...
Dec 2, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Hip Harp Academy, Webinar Sign-Up Pages
Register for this FREE WORKSHOP A FREE 1-Hour INTRO TRAINING for Harpists fromDeborah Henson-Conant in How to: MAKE A HOLIDAY HARP CARD! It’s easy to create a personalized Video-Greeting Card that combines your spoken message & music. You get the...
Oct 19, 2021 | Harping & Harpists |
[Read Part 1 here] [Part 2] A woman walks up to me with a five-dollar bill and says, “Can’t you play anything upbeat? Like ‘La Vie en Rose’?” I wanted to say, “Ma’m, I don’t know what the h*ll I’m doing and this is...
Oct 19, 2021 | Harping & Harpists |
It all started with Lead Sheets: I’m 10 years old. I’ve never read a note of music in my life. But I want to play and sing my favorite song, “April Love,” on the piano and I want to do it NOW. So my mother sits down on the piano bench next to...
Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Ever crash and burn? The mythical bird, the Phoenix, makes a habit of it — and, rising from her own ashes, she’s become the symbol of transformation. In the last “Jung at Harp” video podcast, we explored the myth, the music and the meaning of...
Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized |
After a 20-month pandemic hiatus, the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra (NPO) is returning to in-person performances. The theme of their opening concerts is “Festive Return”. This is a celebration of both the music and musicians who are finally playing together again...
Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized |
“Written Music” is a powerful tool for learning and preserving music. Think how amazing it is that you can literally play the same notes Mozart played – because he wrote them all out. But at some point many musicians realize that notes are just the beginning of...
Oct 2, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
HipHarpAcademy.com Presents “3 Secrets of Lead Sheets”A FREE Webinar for HARP Players! from Deborah Henson-Conant FREE TRAINING! Learning to read music require years of training – only to discover that once you’re ‘paper...
Sep 25, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
“I let go of my perfection obsession and accepted imperfect completion.” Sally Walstrum The Birth of a new solo harp piece: Merceditas Sally tells her story: I started playing harp as a child and had a strictly classical background. And I mean...
Sep 25, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
“I told him the family that plays together stays together, and he agrees.” Fern Nelson Fulfilling a Bluesy Goal Fern saw a harpist as a child and always wanted to play, but it wasn’t until a couple years ago that she got her first harp and started to play....
