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Jazz Valentine Project
I have a very special friend, Peter, and I like to make him a very special Valentine every year. Peter is a long-time collaborator whose vision & support led to my Grammy Nominated project “Invention & Alchemy.” If you’ve been to one of my...Tiny Building Blocks
When I’m putting together a show, like the “Lose Your Blues” show coming up this Saturday in the Boston area, part of what’s important to me is the sequence of the tunes – how the flow of the show goes. That’s especially important...
Soñando Today
Today I’m working on Soñando en Español – my 3-movement concerto for harp and orchestra. I’m meeting with Elise Hemke, the harpist who’ll play it, via Skype tonight. She’s the first harpist besides me to ever play it and there’s a problem: I...
Sous-Chef Sketches #1 & #2
I struggle mightily with perfectionism (reminder: perfectionism does not make things perfect – it’s an extreme form of emotional stuttering) But my word of the year is RELEASE. So this is my new journey. The journey towards creating recordings I’m...
How to Help Promote a YouTube Video
I posted a new YouTube video, told my Facebook tribe and the video got a bunch of views, so of course I got greedy. I asked everyone to “like” it, share it and comment — and they’d say “OK, but how??” (Yes, we are mostly over 30...
Auntie’s Eve & My Favorite Aunt
A few years ago, I was in the middle of a show in May when I heard myself blurt out that the night before Mother’s Day is actually “Auntie’s Eve” – I happened to have a show booked for that night so I told everyone they needed to bring...
Rehearsing Performance
I’m preparing for an interview with radio host Jacky Ankeles tomorrow morning to talk about my upcoming show at the Shalin Liu in Rockport, MA this Saturday, April 21st. Jacky sent a few questions for me to think about, I started answering via blog. Her first...
Maquettes – “Invention & Alchemy” in Miniature
It was a composer’s Cinderella story: a CD/DVD project with symphony orchestra and all my original music. 7 cameras, a director, designers, producer, Union negotiations, makeup artists … and did I mention the full symphony orchestra? The video would go...
“Pluck U” Pilot Project Launches!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Nov. 6, 2011 Event) Electric Harp Pioneer Trains a new Generation of Rockin’ Harpists – whether you play harp or not! “I think of it like a cross between test-driving a new Ferrari and bungee-jumping …” (Deborah Henson-Conant) LINK...
