Leading off today’s spotlight is a wonderful piece of free software – GNU Solfege. It offers a whole bunch of useful ear training exercises – good stuff! Then, this is interesting – Wynton Marsalis’s “Twelve Ways to Practice” And finally, I’ll be playing Sir Granville Bantock’s “Hamabdil” in a concert on May 3rd with harp and
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I’m performing two concerts the first weekend of May that I wanted to share with you. On Saturday, May 2nd, I’ll be at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Nanaimo, BC, performing a shared concert with Seattle based baritone Craig Nim. I’ll be performing Handel’s Harp Concerto, Grandjany’s Rhapsodie, and Deborah Henson-Conant’s Baroque Flamenco And then
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To lead off this week’s Sunday Spotlight here’s a fascinating video that’s not directly related to music – but an interesting look at performing works today that were created many years ago… Then, this is a fun story :) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/arts/music/michael-fabianos-7-hours-from-call-to-stage-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html And finally, I mentioned IMSLP last week – here’s another great resource for public domain music
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I’m a little behind in posting episodes – here’s the Harp Tuesday episode from two weeks ago, plus last week’s Slow Motion Monday episode:
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Leading off today’s Sunday Spotlight, this is fun – various composer’s treble clefs… I originally saw this come by on my facebook feed. A google search turned up various instances of it, but I couldn’t find any attribution for the photo. Also, I assume it’s true, but I haven’t checked… :) Here’s another link with
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To start this week, a link that got posted on one of the harp email lists I’m on (hat-tip to Janis) – “Musical Migrants” about musical emigrants from the Val d’Agri (Italy). Tons of pictures of harps and a fascinating read: http://www.youblisher.com/p/813853-Italian-Historical-Society-Journal-Musical-migrants Then, I saw this come by on my facebook feed – pretty funny
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While doing my last Harp Tuesday episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YcSwbtjYA4 which features a look at me playing in slow motion) I got the idea to start a new video series. On the weeks when I don’t do a Harp Tuesday episode, instead I’ll do a “Slow Motion Monday” video. These videos will be quite short – a
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Last week I linked to Dame Janet Baker singing Elgar’s “Sea Pictures” – here’s a short video of her talking about stage fright: I stumbled across this symphony on YouTube yesterday by contemporary composer Andrei Golovin – I quite like it (notice also the very effective use of the piano in an orchestral setting): And
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One of my favourite moments at the World Harp Congress in 2011 was listening to Sylvain Blassel give a spellbind performance of the entire Bach Goldberg Variations. Here’s a video of him playing a portion of it: (You can buy his recording of the entire Variations on iTunes) Just played the harp part in Elgar’s
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