5 Tips on Arranging and Improvising a Left Hand for Harp
Today we’re going to be talking about ways to improvise or arrange a left-hand accompaniment.
For the purposes of this post, I’m going to assume that you already have your …
Free Simple Funeral Bulletin Template for Mac – Pages
When my mother died I had a few days to make the bulletin. I found many very flowery, saccherine and overly complicated templates online but I wanted something simple, with …
Light So Brilliant: Christmas Carols and Tunes for Solo Harp
“Evoking an ancient rather than modern setting, Claussen’s renditions contain variations that intermediate through advanced harpists will find both intricate and satisfying.”
Harpists looking for moody, challenging, ancient-sounding arrangements of Christmas …
Tips for Successfully Navigating Online Harp Lessons
If you’ve never used Skype (or Facetime, or Zoom, or Google Hangout, or Facebook Video Chat) for your harp lesson before, here are some tips on how to set up …
Making a Harp Cover
Like C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed (which is a study of Lewis’ own grief rather than a commentary on grief in general), this is a record of my process …
Organization Ideas for Harpists
As a professional harpist, my career is multi-faceted and oddly specific. Over the years I’ve built up multiple systems for managing the equipment, the merchandise and the information that goes …
Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 3): Six Ways to Prepare For An Orchestra Gig as a harpist
In Part 1 and Part 2 of the series Practicing for Any Contingency, I shared tips on preparing for background harp gigs and for solo harp concerts. In this post …
Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 2): Six Ways to Prepare for a Solo Harp Concert
In my first post of the series, Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 1) : Six Unorthodox Ways To Prepare for a Background Harp Gig, I talked about all the things …
Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 1): Six Unorthodox Ways To Prepare for a Background Harp Gig
1. Practice with a light shining in your face.
Once I played harp for a lovely wedding reception on a cruise boat. Dramatic clouds spotted the western sky as a glowing …
Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Overture:” Harp part, page 4
This Sunday afternoon I will be performing harp on the “Russian Easter Overture” for the third time. I love it when I get to repeat an orchestral work because I …