Excerpt from a Letter: January 6th, 2011
I thought I would share a ‘music’ moment from my life last year while I was living in southern France working with Campus Crusade (Cru) and practicing harp as often …
What’s in a String?
There is a ballad that tells the story of two sisters who loved the same young man. One day the eldest sister pushed the other into the river. The sister’s …
Practicing For Heaven
I started playing the harp when I was seven.
Stephanie Claussen
Did anyone else’s mother dress them up for photo shoots when they were a kid?
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A Visit to County Antrim, Northern Ireland
It never occurred me to make a “bucket list” until last year, but when I finally got down to making one, playing harp in an Irish pub was one of …
Where Opera and Baseball Meet…
Crowds of excited baseball fans sweep toward the stadium. The voice of a peanut vendor rises over the melee. The smoke and baseball music combine to summon up associations of …
Choosing Your Wedding Ceremony Music
I seem to remember performing harp at a wedding for the first time about fifteen years ago. Almost since that day, I’ve known that someday I want to walk down …
Of Harps and Hobbits
We all know what is going to happen this December – that single life-changing event we’ve all been waiting for, more than Christmas, more than the Mayan end of the …
Baby Harp Enters the Family
Last week I bought a new harp! Owned originally by a friend’s mother’s husband’s tenant, it was built one year before I was born.
It is about three feet high, and …
How NOT to Rent a Harp in Paris
I spent two years living in Montpellier, France along the Mediterranean. And though I practiced several times a week at the local music conservatory, I missed having a harp in …
Recital featuring Jacob Tews
Come hear the world premier of two orchestral works by violist Jacob Tews:
knowing the river: a narrative for viola and orchestra in three acts and
Chamber Symphony, ‘Three Reflections’
Jacob …