How to get a “Handel” on Arrangement
When I was first creating my foundational online program “Hip Harp Toolkit” I got an emergency arrangement question that confirmed just how important this class is for harp players! A harpist I’d never met emailed me in desperation. He had to play...
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...
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Harp Coloring Pages ~ ColoringHarps.com
Do you play the harp? Or just like the way harps look? Do you love coloring pages? Download my FREE HARP COLORING PAGES! 3 original drawings by artist Ellen Lebow in a PDF set of coloring pages you can download for free. YES! I want to color harps!! I’ve always loved...
When the End Comes (from ‘The Ground Zero Club’ Musical)
North Korea. Nuclear war. It’s easy to forget the intensely personal side of the immensity of nuclear war. It hit me in the 80’s and I wrote a whole musical about it. This is the song that started my journey into the darkness I hope never comes:...
The Waiter who inspired my Hip Harp Toolkit
I was standing in my studio a couple years ago with my then-media-maven, Jeila, telling her about the new online course I was creating, “Hip Harp Toolkit” – and she asked, “Where did you learn to arrange for harp and what made you decide to...
Ute’s “In the Wings”
I originally wrote my one-woman show “In the Wings (or “What the Hell are you Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??”)” in 2008 for a premier at the the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. A year later I performed it in a full-cast version in Seattle. After that...
She’s playing my song… Mai Fukui’s “Baroque Flamenco”
This is a blog series featuring performances of my harp showpiece “Baroque Flamenco” by other musicians. Click HERE to link to the overview blog Baroque Flamenco Around the World. As a composer, the delight of hearing my music performed by someone who clearly loves...
She’s playing my song… Anna Antonova’s “Baroque Flamenco”
This is a blog series featuring performances of my harp showpiece “Baroque Flamenco” by other musicians. Click HERE to link to the overview blog Baroque Flamenco Around the World. We interrupt this post for an important message: Hip Harp Academy Presents an intro to...
