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Two hours is a good minimum. The more, the better, up to five or six hours most days. What sets the motor memory is the number of repetitions of each small group of notes. You must do at least ten repetitions for it to set, preferably ten good ones without errors. Seven is the minimum, but three more cement it. This has been proven with many people.
There are at least four sonatas by Spohr for violin and harp, and they tend to be harp-killers. Krumpholtz wrote six. Boccherini may have written six or they may have been published as harp. You can do baroque sonatas with continuo. You can do my Chassidic Suite for violin and harp. There are some pieces by Roman Ryterband. Cavatina by Henk Badings. Some pieces are disguised as flute and harp music, some as violin and piano. You can do the Lark Ascending by Vaughan-Williams from the piano accompaniment.
I lean toward emphasizing music, if only because so much of it is taught and has to be learned in sequence, and much by a certain age, and if one ever wants to compete for anything, it is all age restricted, sadly.
By the way, of all people, Jane Doe showed up at the last concert of the Harp Music Festival of Philadelphia, looking for John, with all the children and dogs in tow. She swore she would come back each year until she found him. By the way, she appeared to be very religious, judging by the wig and long-sleeved dress she wore. She might have been Mennonite or Jewish, or something else altogether. She was about 5’2″ in height, might have weighed about 130 lbs. or so, and had bitten fingernails. She didn’t seem to be carrying any weapons except a rolling pin with bits of pie crust dough clinging to it. She seemed pretty rational, sort of, but when I talked to her face-to-face, her eyes sort of kept sliding sideways. Definitely a little odd.
Is he perhaps a harp builder in Chicago for whom English is not a first language? That would explain all the insider gossip.
I would recommend Fay Seeman, who teaches in your area at Northern Illinois University and I think Wheaton College.
Yes, a student in her upper 20s auditioned for me once and asked if she could be considered professional, and considering that her tempo and rhythm fluctuated willy-nilly, I had to say no.
