Jun 19, 2014 | Performance |
Passing the baton has a very literal meaning for me right now. A week from today, I’ll be standing on a podium front of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra members in New Orleans holding a conductor’s baton (no doubt trembling) and conducting the orchestra while a...
Jun 17, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
Class has started! “Hip Harp Toolkit Latin-Style” course for harp players starts this week. Register the passionate musician, to create a repertoire of inventive, fun solo arrangements – specifically for your skill level … because you create them...
Jun 17, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performance, Strings of Passion |
On Monday, June 23rd at 11am – the 2014 AHS Conference presents “Strings of Passion” by Deborah Henson-Conant – music, ideas and humor in a presentation that is both concert and lecture, both listening and interactive for the audience. It...
Jun 17, 2014 | Composing, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performance |
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 7:30pm – as part of the Orchestra Gala at the 2014 AHS Conference in New Orleans, Deborah Henson-Conant’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, “Soñando en Español” will be performed by Harp Soloist, Eleanor Turner and...
Jun 17, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performance, Strings of Passion |
LIVE from the studios of DHC-TV – a special online version of “The Seven Strings of Passion” (also known as “Strings of Passion”) For those who can’t come to New Orleans for the LIVE “Strings of Passion,” I’m...
Jun 14, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Random Thoughts |
I never know what to call the musicians and performers who work with me in my mentorships and online courses. Are they ‘clients?’ Are they ‘students?’ Mentorees? Colleagues-with-questions? So I guess this is a question for you...
Jun 12, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Current Events |
When you do something weird., when you’re used to being misunderstood, when you’ve spent your life hunched and ready to hit back — then when you see things in the news that even talk about someone else doing it too, you celebrate. Two things crossed my Twitter...
Jun 4, 2014 | Harping & Harpists, Performance, Projects |
I have this secret project I call “Re-DHC” and it’s all about sharing — or REleasing — my past performances and creations. The “Dogs of Somerville” video I posted last week is part of that project. (And THANK YOU for the...
Jun 3, 2014 | Performance |
Vinnie was the one who suggested it. He’s an agent for motivational-speakers. He saw my “Invention & Alchemy” music special on PBS and wrote me. He said I should use my style of combining stories, ideas and music to build a performance that lets...
May 30, 2014 | Composing, Performance |
If you have my 1985 straight-ahead-jazz album, ‘Round the Corner, you’ve heard the opening track, ‘Round the Corner, played as an instrumental jazz standard-style with harp, bass & drums. That jazz rendition is this song’s...
