Twitter might not seem like the first choice in social media these days, especially when the current political administration is using the forum with unpredictable and controversial methods. It’s so much easier to post rants on Facebook or share funny memes on...
I recently heard a joke, “If you want to feel bad about your new achievement, google it adding 5-year-old doing it.....” Unless you are the blessed few (like the 5 year old playing the Handel Harp Concerto...), you are no stranger to the vulnerability that comes with...
An interesting thing happened to my family recently. Both my husband and myself make our living from only music. We have been married about seven years, have three kids and own a house. Besides from teaching, my husband is a church musician - pianist, organist,...
Recently I played a concert in a rather rural area. The audience had little to no contact with classical concerts before (as quite a few told me afterwards) and most of them have never heard a solo-harp-recital in their lives. Still, when I announced „Next, I’m going...
A new year, a new you! a journey towards harp happiness: If you can't tell I have a thing for categorizations and continued threads. Maybe this is why I loved the Harry Potter books so much... I can never get enough of a good thing! This blog series will be focused...
For anyone who would like to know more about Elizabeth Landis, please feel free to visit her website! Mindfulness techniques: (these techniques were taken from MindBodyGreen.com) 1. The Bell Listening Exercise Ring a bell and ask the kids to listen closely to the...
Happy New Year! While you're putting together your list of resolutions for this year, how about instituting a string replacement schedule? Your harp only sounds as good as its strings, and unfortunately strings do deteriorate with age and use. While it is obviously...
Since a harp's bass wires are thicker and stiffer than the rest of its strings, many harpists choose to avoid replacing their own, preferring to have a technician do the job during a regulation. But if you'd like to do it yourself, or one breaks and you have to do it...
The Holiday season means lots of harp gigs. But what about all that cold and snow? (Photo by Meg Rodgers) As we head toward the holiday season, and it starts to get cold in many parts of the northern hemisphere, a question I am asked a lot is whether it is safe to...
Good teaching tools are abundant in our community. We are extremely fortunate to have some truly brilliant minds in the harp family, that share their gifts readily. All you have to do is search in the "methods" section of any store that sells harp music and you will...
