![Pluckin’ Beethoven](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tracksuit-fur-elise.jpg)
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The Mystery of Mastery
What’s that buzz about mastery? That it takes 10,000 hours to master anything? OK. Sure. I believe it. And the point of being a ‘master’ is …? I’m not dissing mastery. I’m just saying that – especially for adult learners – is it really about mastery? Or is it about...![My Steve Vai](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/vai-bynoe-dhc.jpg)
My Steve Vai
(A collection of videos, photos and blogs from 3-months on tour with guitar legend Steve Vai in 2012.) You know that fantasy? The one where a great rock legend calls you up and invites you on tour? Suddenly there you are, playing to huge crowds of screaming fans,...![A Night at the Museum – Harp-Style](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DHC-in-plastic-stegmaier-warhol2-w.jpg)
A Night at the Museum – Harp-Style
What if you were the Mona Lisa (she smiled enigmatically)? Or a Picasso (she mused abstractedly)? Well, I am an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music (MOMM) in southern California and on Wednesday June 26th, I’m coming alive at the Museum … of making music! MOMM...![Two Premieres … One Day](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/American-Youth-Harp-Ensemble-Classical_Jam_2013_500.jpg)
Two Premieres … One Day
Tomorrow – June 1st- is one of those days I LOVE being a composer. In Richmond, VA the American Youth Harp Ensemble is previewing a new arrangement of my “Baroque Flamenco” that they commissioned … … and in Cambridge, MA the...![Finding the Dance Palace](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/memoire-blog-image-242x300.jpg)
Finding the Dance Palace
When I left High School a few weeks before graduation – because, what was the point of graduating? – I joined a true dropout, my friend Jan, and her boyfriend Marty – a bona fide bearded hippy, and drove from LA up to a town called Bolinas, just north of San...![How I learned the Physical Zoom](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/facebook-comment-livestream2.jpg)
How I learned the Physical Zoom
Last weekend I broadcast my first Livestream studio shows – LIVE from my own TV-studio. Meaning … my livingroom. NC. I LOVED the comments of the people who joined me from all over the world … Even the folks who were scratching their heads a little: What...![Loneliness of the Long-Distance Composer](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Elise-in-rehearsal.jpg)
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...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...![Blues Harp with a Twist (Official Press Release)](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tix_click_238px_on.jpg)