![Pluckin’ Beethoven](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tracksuit-fur-elise.jpg)
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Complaining Again in Boston
I wrote the song “Complaining” in the ’80s, originally for a group of teenage girls in a show called “Marketpace Cabaret” that I wrote with Al Krulick (aka “Al Shakespeare,” the ‘dean of street-performers”). You can hear the original here...![Two Premieres … One Day](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/American-Youth-Harp-Ensemble-Classical_Jam_2013_500.jpg)
Two Premieres … One Day
Tomorrow – June 1st- is one of those days I LOVE being a composer. In Richmond, VA the American Youth Harp Ensemble is previewing a new arrangement of my “Baroque Flamenco” that they commissioned … … and in Cambridge, MA the...![The Moment I Became a Musician](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/memoire-blog-image1-242x300.jpg)
The Moment I Became a Musician
There was a moment when I made the transition in my life from person-who’s-passionate-about-music to professional musician. It sits in a picture frame in my mind, the moment of realization. I lived, then, just north of Pt. Reyes Station, California – in an old...![What do Harpist Composer’s-Assistants Do?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/composing-assistants-molly-sebla-barflam.jpg)
What do Harpist Composer’s-Assistants Do?
Last night I met two of my new composing assistants, harpists who are helping me create the new ensemble version of “Baroque Flamenco” for the the US’s premiere youth harp ensemble. Sebla Akbulut & Molly McCaffrey are both students at the Boston...![Loneliness of the Long-Distance Composer](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Elise-in-rehearsal.jpg)
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Composer
Last night one of my childhood dreams came true. And I wasn’t there. It happens all the time – but I knew about it this time. This is part of the loneliness of the long-distance composer – or anyone who creates things that other people bring...![Home Brew Cabaret – Mon. Mar. 11 – Cambridge, MA](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cabaret-folks.jpg)
Home Brew Cabaret – Mon. Mar. 11 – Cambridge, MA
Join me in the audience this coming Monday – March 11 – at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA – when my new Blues, “I’ll be your Sous-Chef, Baby” gets its cabaret debut! Here are the folks who’ll be performing it:...A Self-Discovery Manual
Fact 1: My word for the year is “Release” Fact 2: I was on a phone chat with my coach this week and I asked her for a set of daily practices, kind of like a “Daily Get-Myself-Together Workout.” But she turned the tables on me. In essence she...![In Good Company](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ives-bernstein-dhc-gershwin-hemke3.jpg)
In Good Company
On March 3rd, harpist Elise Hemke will step on stage with the Grand Junction Symphony and play a harp concerto in a concert called “American Portrait.” The concert features four American composers. Three are some of my greatest heroes, composers I’ve...![Soñando Today](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sonando-page11.jpg)