![12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/golden-cage-SQUARE-12-min-image-youtube-video-for-blog-dhc-1080x675.jpg)
![12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/golden-cage-SQUARE-12-min-image-youtube-video-for-blog-dhc-1080x675.jpg)
![Can you DISTILL experience to its ESSENCE?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/compilation-essential-dhc-cd-covers-wide-copy-1024x518.jpg)
Can you DISTILL experience to its ESSENCE?
Do you ever wish you could DISTILL a huge amount of knowledge and simplify it down to just what’s essential? Do you wish you could reduce everything in your house, your backpack, your closets, your drawers, your bathroom, your kitchen — maybe even your body,...![Do you read me?? What is readability?](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tim-dhc-rehearse-tzc-pointing-68011_1000x675.jpg)
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...![Ute’s “In the Wings”](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ute-dhc-170919-itw-rehearsal-6.jpg)
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...![The Birth of Baroque Flamenco](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jean-jacques-rousseau-249x3001.jpg)
The Birth of Baroque Flamenco
We interrupt this post for an important message: Hip Harp Academy Presents an intro to Hip Harp Academy Blues Jam HARP Challenge - July 1-8 Register Now for the Challenge (We first shared this post on April 21, 2016) Baroque Flamenco is one of my most famous and fiery...![PlayActing](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PLAYACTING1.png)
PlayActing
PlayActing. It’s how I’ve been writing music since I was a kid. I act it out. I play all the parts, and completely indulge myself in the emotions and physicalization. And now that I’m working on (hopefully final) revisions of “The Golden Cage,” pianist &...![Back to Straight Up! (Recording Day #1)](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/car-harp-shotgun-1024x768.jpg)
Back to Straight Up! (Recording Day #1)
It feels like it’s taken forever, but today I headed back to Straight Up recording studio in Arlington, MA to record what may become my next album. Yes, yes, I know, I’ve been recording this album for – what – three years now? Well, I’m at it again. The day started...![The Ultimate Harpist Day-Job](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hipharpacademy-ad-likeforharpcolumn.png)
The Ultimate Harpist Day-Job
Well, it’s happened. The online school I started building in 2012 has gotten too big for its britches, and I need HELP! I posted this ad in the last issue of the “Harp Column” (yes, we harpists have our own trade magazine – which includes a...![DHC’s Blog Post Overview](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NewsToBlues-YouTube-300x213.jpg)