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My Vision Comes Alive in … Tacoma!
(This is from an note I just wrote to members of the Seattle-Tacoma harpist community) I’m excited about coming back to the Seattle-Tacoma area and thrilled to play with the Tacoma Symphony Sunday, March 27 at 2:30 pm! Seattle-Tacoma is a hotbed of harp activity in...
The Welsh Rare Bit – An Unusual Opportunity in Wales
Conductor & soloist disrobe after “Danger Zone”In April of 2010 I presented a concert of my music for harp and Chamber Ensemble. The project included a brief residency working with two professional harp soloists (Eleanor Turner & Amanda Whiting),...
Shrunk – “So, how does that feel…?” – A Performer’s Review
My assistant, Bea, asked me to review my own experience of the recent preview of my new piece “Honey, I Shrunk the Harp!” She wanted to know … how did she put it… “what YOU were feeling in the hours leading up to the show, while you were...
Dream Catcher
Lately, my shows have been changing on a fundamental level. I know this because of the kinds of comments I get. People have stopped commenting about me, personally, or even about how much they liked the show — and instead, I they tell me excited stories about...
My Own Theatre
I LOVE THE REGENT THEATRE!!! What’s so cool about it? Well … everything! The sound is great, there’s not a bad seat in the house, there’s plenty of free parking and great restaurants within steps of the theater. It’s MBTA and handicap...
Small is the new Big – “Honey, I Shrunk the Harp!”
“Honey, I Shrunk the Harp” is a music-theater piece I started developing last summer at performance camp in Maine. Er … yes … I go to performance camp. OK, OK … you could call it a theater ‘retreat’ – and I go there to...The Wrong Harp
First Rehearsal with Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata at the festival Ruhrtrienalle in Duisburg, Germany — and I’m kicking myself with more feet than I have. It’s all about this harp. We needed a simple acoustic lever harp for one piece. It...Poetic Translation
When I was in school – college – about the time I started playing the harp, I had an English class in which we studied poetry, including translation. The teacher described the difference between a literal translation of a poem and a poetic translation: a...
Strings of Passion
I’m working on a new project – or, I should say that I’m working newly on an ongoing project – called “Strings of Passion.” “Strings of Passion” is a concert of music, ideas and humor, and the Sept. 25th performance at Boston...
