featured in this issue
Interviews
Golden Girl
Fresh off her gold-medal win at the 2016 USA International Harp Competition, Katherine Siochi sits down to talk about her the experience and how she got there.
Feature
50 Ways to Boost Your Income
Need to make more but don’t want to put down your harp to work at Starbucks? We’ve got 50 ideas to use your music skills to put more money in your pocket.
Feature
Gold Star Student
Make yourself into a model student by developing these five key habits.
September-October 2016
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Columns and more
Sounding Board
Theoretically Speaking
Will I ever use this music theory in the real world? According to this harpist, the answer is a definitive yes.
Advice
Are Conferences Worth It?
Q: Is it worth the money to attend conferences and workshops?
Strange But True Harp Stories
The Missing Envelope
An unconventional payday.
Reviews and extras
Recording Review
The Art of Imagination
8/10 Queens Duo: Hanna Rabe, harp; Verena Beatrix Schulte, flute; TYXart, 2015. Queens Duo—German harpist, Hanna Rabe and flutist Verena Beatrix Schulte—quotes Einstein on its new album The Art of Imagination: “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” And it is unquestionably so in this glorious album. The spirit […]
Recording Review
Whisper: The bossa-Nova Brandenberg concerto
7/10 Cristina Braga, harp, and the Brandenburger Symphoniker; Biscoito Fino, 2016. She has it all—the sultry voice, the look, great friends to make music with—and she ties everything up in a bow accompanying herself and providing the entire foundation with her harp. It’s Brazil’s national treasure, Cristina Braga, this time recording live in Germany’s Brandenburg […]
Music Review
Jazz For All
Three collections by Evelyn Huber and a new arranging and improv reference book from Felice Pomeranz.