Feb 27, 2014 | Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
Each week in my online course, “Hip Harp Toolkit, ” I hold a live online Q&A to answer student questions – and each week, harpist Hartmut Engel segments the chat and posts it so students can review it. I asked Hartmut to select one short segment...
Feb 17, 2014 | Performance |
Yeah, sure, we all like funny cat videos … but what do CATS watch on video? Apparently …. ME! So I learned at during my weekly “DHC-TV” Livestream show. At my last show I was greeting the audience, reading their screen names, when I came...
Feb 14, 2014 | Song Lyrics, Songwriting |
Love … love is the freshest taste you’ll ever find. The perfect compliment, the finest wine. Until the day it turns to slime. LISTEN BELOW: [audio: https://hipharp.com/cv/audio/neveralbum/LoveGoneBad-HensonConant-Valentine.mp3] or it’s a way too...
Feb 14, 2014 | Holidays, Love Stories (Wired for Love), Romance, Songwriting |
“If music be the food of love … then what’s that smell?” Love Gone Bad by Deborah Henson-Conant (words & music / voice & harp) https://hipharp.com/cv/audio/neveralbum/LoveGoneBad-HensonConant-Valentine.mp3 I go hot and cold with...
Feb 4, 2014 | Love Stories (Wired for Love), Romance |
Every year, for Valentine’s Day, I share romantic music & stories. Each year, I look back and re-share them in a post like this. So please share the links below with YOUR Valentines! Love Songs for Peter: In 2013 I created a special musical valentine for my...
Jan 27, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
I recently learned something that completely changed my relationship to a skill I was trying to learn. Twitter… (where I’m known as feeling like I had to say something brilliant. I described it to people who I’d ask for help as a kind of...
Jan 26, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Random Thoughts |
10AM my father-in-law calls from the road. As always, he introduces himself as “the outlaw” – the name I made up for him because Jonathan and I aren’t legally married. He says I sound bushy-tailed. I tell him I’m in the middle of my morning sweep – a quick cleanup...
Jan 23, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harps |
OK … I have to brag. I have to brag about my students. The fact that I HAVE students is exciting, frankly – because I like to teach in groups – and the students I work with live all over the world – so it’s only in the past 18 months...
Jan 17, 2014 | Audience Feedback, Blues, Harping & Harpists, People I Meet, Performance |
Last Saturday, at my annual “Lose Your Blues” show, I came back on stage early after intermission – as I often do (because there’s nothing to do backstage and I came there to be with the audience, so why would I hang out in the basement)? Anyway, I often use it as a Q...
Jan 17, 2014 | Guest Blogger, Harping & Harpists, Performance, Recordings |
THIS IS A GUEST BLOG FROM Jeila Irdmusa. Jeila is the featured soprano in the 2014 concert of my song cycles at Boston University, “Mythic Women.” You can read more about that project in this blog: Help Wanted! Concert Name. DHC performed her “Lose Your...
