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$5-Bill to Symphony Stage (Part 2: The Lady with the 5-Dollar Bill)
[Read Part 1 here] [Part 2] A woman walks up to me with a five-dollar bill and says, “Can’t you play anything upbeat? Like ‘La Vie en Rose’?” I wanted to say, “Ma’m, I don’t know what the h*ll I’m doing and this is...
$5-Bill to Symphony Stage (Part 1: The Handsome Waiter)
It all started with Lead Sheets: I’m 10 years old. I’ve never read a note of music in my life. But I want to play and sing my favorite song, “April Love,” on the piano and I want to do it NOW. So my mother sits down on the piano bench next to...
Crash & Burn? The Phoenix makes a habit of it.
Ever crash and burn? The mythical bird, the Phoenix, makes a habit of it — and, rising from her own ashes, she’s become the symbol of transformation. In the last “Jung at Harp” video podcast, we explored the myth, the music and the meaning of...
Concerto Winner, Liana Alpino, performs “Baroque Flamenco” with Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra
After a 20-month pandemic hiatus, the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra (NPO) is returning to in-person performances. The theme of their opening concerts is “Festive Return”. This is a celebration of both the music and musicians who are finally playing together again...
What’s a Lead Sheet?
“Written Music” is a powerful tool for learning and preserving music. Think how amazing it is that you can literally play the same notes Mozart played – because he wrote them all out. But at some point many musicians realize that notes are just the beginning of...
3 Lead Sheet Secrets – A FREE Workshop for Harp Players
HipHarpAcademy.com Presents “3 Secrets of Lead Sheets”A FREE Webinar for HARP Players! from Deborah Henson-Conant FREE TRAINING! Learning to read music require years of training – only to discover that once you’re ‘paper...
Meet Sally – Helping to Reinvent an Orchestra on Solo Harp
“I let go of my perfection obsession and accepted imperfect completion.” Sally Walstrum The Birth of a new solo harp piece: Merceditas Sally tells her story: I started playing harp as a child and had a strictly classical background. And I mean...
Meet Fern, fulfilling a Bluesy goal
“I told him the family that plays together stays together, and he agrees.” Fern Nelson Fulfilling a Bluesy Goal Fern saw a harpist as a child and always wanted to play, but it wasn’t until a couple years ago that she got her first harp and started to play....
Meet Louise – and her jazz love-child of Satie & Pachelbel
Ever been curious to know what you get when you combine the music of Erik Satie and Johann Pachelbel? Well, this harpist was, and you can hear the result. But first … Meet Louise Bell Louise is an Australian harpist, pianist, singer, performer, composer,...
