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Emily, if you go to http://www.ukharp.net, it will take you to the home page of United Kingdom Harpists Association. Click on CONTACT US and put your information and inquiry into the boxes, then Submit. I’m sure you’ll receive the information about summer harp camps in the UK soon.
You posted under Professional. Since you may be paid for this first wedding, and go on from this one accepting more paid engagements with your harp, go to the online
Kay, that is so true. Mildred Dilling, First Lady of the Harp (In the full page photo in Musical America magazine many years ago) said, in a workshop I took with her in 1978: Don’t drop your pieces. She had just
Please let the bottom string of a 22-string harp be 1 octave below middle C, so the left hand will have enough to do in bass clef!
If you’re not in a great hurry, you could e-mail me in a month. I just got a call yesterday from a former student who wants to sell hers and concentrate on piano. She’ll be away for 3 weeks so doesn’t want calls while she is away, to go unanswered. She’s in Vancouver, Washington. The harp is in nearly new condition.
Armande,
If you go to http://www.sharonwatsonmusic.com, then click on Solo Pedal Harp Music,. then put Ave Maria into the search box, right away will come up the arrangement by Bach, at $3.95. Sharon is a gifted arranger of harp music based in Indianapolis, Indiana,
Sherry, since you are quite serious about taking this audition, and luckily have five months before the event, please make the investment in five months of lessons with a degreed harp teacher who is familiar with the literature they are asking you to play. He or she will have the necessary harp
Probably because over time, many compositions such as songs, would have more verses than one, it would make great sense for
About that L+H Style 14 you are thinking of, does it have 43 strings? Mine does, and over the years it has become the only pedal harp I take out to play, though I have a larger harp to use for teaching. The #14
Emily, just as “piano trio” usually means violin, cello, and piano, such as the beautiful one by Mendelssohn, would you explain whether you are searching for Piazzola music for harp and two other instruments, or for a trio of three harps? Thank you.
Candied ginger lumps, available at many groceries such as Whole Foods, seem to help circulation, without interfering with any medicines you may be taking.
Try to “own” the piece more completely. Know about the composer’s life, and when and where it was written. Know the general form (ABAA or whatever it seems to be). Know several things that describe the movement of notes – lots of a certain kind of interval; whether it is more in a chordal or a contrapuntal style; whether major or minor; chord symbols and where they go or modulate. You are the medium to express what this composer (perhaps no longer living) had in mind, so remember your playing it is not about you, but about the creativity of the composer. Have a family member or a very good friend sit and listen and watch you, then ask that person to quiz you with many questions about what you played and all about it and the composer. If you can say those answers and enjoy doing it because you researched that piece in depth, then you could say it is now something you’ll willingly share with others without being nervous about it.
