Another recent music video, “Farewell to Stromness” by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, is part of the “Yellow Cake Revue” – a set of songs plus two piano interludes that Davies wrote to protest a proposed uranium mine on the Orkney islands in 1980. I, too, live on an island; Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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I recently recorded a music video of Hasselman’s lovely Chanson de Mai, paired with the beautiful wild Camas flowers (and bees!) found here in Victoria, BC: If you’re interested in learning Chanson de Mai, the sheet music is freely available at https://archive.org/details/chansondemairoma1897hass/page/2/mode/2up I also did a Harp Tuesday episode on it!
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As a follow-up to my previous two blog posts on listening I did a Harp Tuesday episode to try to demonstrate what exactly I mean by phrasing, or the space between the notes! I take a listen to three different recordings of a single bar from Chopin’s Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 2. Part 1: focused
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In listening, part 1, I mentioned closing one’s eyes when listening to remove the visual stimuli. This can have much more of an effect than we think, for example check out this illusion! I also talked about ignoring the sound quality of the recording to focus on phrasing. Both of those tie into what I
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(this was originally sent out to my email newsletter subscribers – join my list here) Hi all, We’re often surrounded by music; it can be a soundtrack to everything we do (exercise, work, cooking, reading, watching movies, etc.) and yet it can be very rare to actually sit down and just listen to something, focused
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I recently published a music video of the tremendously fun Alla Turca Jazz and then yesterday I published a video of a performance from 2018 of the Prelude and Clair de Lune from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. Hope you enjoy! :)
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Some recent videos, including my 2020 New Year’s Improvisation: A music video and Harp Tuesday episode on Salzedo’s Concert Variations on ‘O Tannenbaum‘: And a couple other recent Harp Tuesday episodes:
A lost masterpiece restored; a long-held dream achieved. Bochsa’s Harp Concerto No. 1 at the World Harp Congress. Plus teaching/performing at the CNU Harp Festival and International Summer Harp Academy. I’m very excited to share with you that I’ll be playing Bochsa’s Premier Concerto at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff, Wales, on July 30th,
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I’ll be performing a 40 minute lunch-time concert in Victoria 12:10-12:50pm on Wednesday, Dec. 11th. St. Mary’s Church on Elgin Road in Oak Bay. And a longer evening concert on Wednesday, Dec. 18th at 7pm at St. Andrew’s Church on 4th Street in Sidney, BC Both programs will include this classic :) See you there!
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