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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
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:...
New Solo Show – Sat. April 13 at 8pm – Asheville, NC
Deborah Henson-Conant Sat. April 13, 2013 – 8pm The Altamont Theatre – Asheville, NC WHAT: NEW SOLO SHOW at the wonderful Altamont Theatre! WHERE: 18 Church St. Asheville, NC 28801 WHEN: Sat. April 13, 2013 at 8 PM TIX: $25 advance / $30 day of...A Kiss is Still a Kiss
“I sat down at that gorgeous instrument and sank back into the pleasure of the jazz standards I’d cut my teeth on.” 4 classic jazz tunes on solo jazz-harp. Download it here. When I first started playing jazz on the harp I simply wanted to see if I could...
What’s the name of that “IT”?
In which I tell you what I’m trying to do … so you can tell me what it is … so I can figure out how to do it… In Mark Twain’s “The Diary of Adam and Eve” was where I learned that Eve’s job was to name the animals. So she’d name something like...
Who’s Your Muse?
It was an experiment. And what I discovered was … He’s my muse. Thinking of him, playing for him, I was able to do what I hadn’t been able to do for 7 years, which was release newly recorded music. I sent them to him as a valentine, then released them as a...
Love Songs for Peter
In the 2nd grade I bought a pack of valentines for everyone in the class.This year I made only ONE – and I made it by hand for my beloved friend Peter.It’s a jazz-harp collection of 4 classic jazz standards: “As Time Goes By,” ...
Making Peter’s Valentine
I started working on it weeks ago, a limited-edition Jazz-Harp Release that started as a personal Jazz Valentine for Peter. I chose the tunes and practiced them. Then I started recording them every morning, putting them on my iPod and listening to them on my daily...
The Laboratory is Open
Monday I did an experiment. I asked for listening help to decide which cuts to use on a I fell apart when it did. I started crying and stomping through the house and eating the cat food. (OK, I didn’t really eat the cat food but I thought about it.) Enter James. My...
