When my children were small, easily our best discovery of music to listen to  - children and adults - was this series of CD's.  Happily they are still available, and for anyone who missed them, I'm happy to write bit…

Severl folks asked about the masks I've been making. After many bazillion tries, I settled on this pattern. Mrs. Youtube showed me how to do it, but I can't find that one again. There are several that use the same…

This is a short series of articles, with lots of info about how to prepare for distance lessons, either as a teacher or a student. While practically anything will "do", as we look to perhaps another year of this, it…

This and part 3 and 4 deal with extra things that make it all better for teachers and students. That is, they don't change the "performance" but they really change the experience. I want to offer what you can do…

The display -

If you are a teacher and you want to keep doing this distance teaching for days on end, you'll soon want to see what your students are doing without squinting at a tiny screen. It's probably…

stands, recorders, and cables and hubs! 

I'll start with cables - how to get all the bits you've assembled connected. If you have a laptop or a tablet, you'll likely need to have an extension hub to get everything…

Good news for those who have been waiting - IMA will offer an on-line program this summer. Registrants will participate in a live on-line two-hour class each morning with their instructor and their harp, there will be one "special…

Historical Harp Society Virtual Conference 
  
Early Harp from the Past into the Present 
June 15-18. 2020 

Events will be in Zoom. Link will be posted at http://historicalharpsociety.org/ by June 12. 
Presentation descriptions will include videos to watch before…

Here's a lovely video of UBC harp major Hayley Farenholtz playing for Connecting with Compassion, a UBC Faculty of Medicine initiative to help seniors coping with the pandemic. 

https://music.ubc.ca/blog/2020/6/1/making-a-difference-new-ubc-initiative-embraces-technology-to-help-seniors-in-long-term-care-combat-social-isolation-during-covid-19 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQgvcrJRG5E&feature=youtu.be

Beautiful work Hayley!!!

Most students, youth or adults, learn the lovely welsh "jigs" which are actually clog dances from Wales.  I was alerted to this fantastic video via the Harplist. It is from the Welsh version of the National Film Board, and dates…

Just had this note from a subscriber:

I have a beautiful Lyon and Healy Prelude harp for sale.  I also have a concert music chair that is included. I am asking 

5000 firm for both.

My e…

The very wonderful Timothy Dawson who is the VSO bass player and creator of the video of Appalachan Spring is at it again. This time with Dancers - so nice! Canadian talent to burn!

And the Norwegian Orchestra…

This one counts because it was harp played by a student - Eleanor - congrats on stepping out with your harp! It's part of a nice band with lots of instruments and

She says:

Some of you were…

THIS SUNDAY APRIL 26, 2020. STILL A FEW SPACES LEFT SO SIGN UP NOW. 

Tuning In 

A Workshop for Musicians Using the Feldenkrais Method™ 

“Improvement of talented people comes through their awareness of 

themselves in…

Thanks to Aimee, who alerted me to this, I've located the soundfiles available for all the Suzuki harp books.   The two sites below have samples you can hear, and in the first one, the samples are long, so they contain…

https://lisaburrellviolin.com/2020/03/31/ten-minute-technique-left-hand-tension-ii/

This is the second in a series of lessons that explore some of the common elements in left hand tension, discomfort, and difficulty. This lesson brings awareness directly to functional properties of the hand itself. 

I have…

One of the participants in our recent - and cancelled - Feldenkrais course was Maureen Briglio, who has let me know that she is doing Zoom movement lessons Fridays at 9:30 am. She has been teaching these lessons at the…

https://music.ubc.ca/blog/2020/3/19/dispatches-covidland?fbclid=IwAR0Tkct63qdmwKGsqpzaEPXjI7D1wDJjSILsCbNCJTRMStAFx_ggLPvxDcE

In 1911, Wurlitzer became the top supplier of automatic harps to brothels in the Barbary Coast, San Francisco's red-light district. 

But first, what is an automatic harp? Why would anyone, let alone a brothel, want one? 

In the…

Notes for the Gearing up for Zoom on line 

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Before your first class: 

download zoom onto your phone, or computer or tablet or laptop. It should be on the device you will use for lessons, something…