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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …