Practicing For Heaven
I started playing the harp when I was seven.
Stephanie Claussen
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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 at …
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 …
Why I didn’t choose the flute
“How much does that thing weigh?” I get asked frequently. The thing so irreverently referred to is, of course, my 6-foot-tall, 47-string, 81-pound Lyon and Healy pedal harp. There is …
Symphony vs. Elton John
I just got back from a weekend in North Dakota where the Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra and I competed versus Elton John for the concert-going audiences of North Dakota. I …