Rio Harp Festival 2015 – day 1
Yesterday (Friday) was my first performance. A few pics: Backstage – a little jet-lagged, but ready to go! On-stage!
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Traveling to Rio
Hi all, I’m traveling down to Brazil for the Rio Harp Festival again this year. I’ll be blogging about my trip – starting with some photos of the (20+hour) trip down! At the Victoria Airport Leaving Victoria In Vancouver Leaving Vancouver Over the Rockies! Toronto Rio!
April Newsletter
I just sent out my April newsletter – you can read it below. If you’d like to sign up to get emails from me, here’s the link! Cheers, Josh ————————————————————————————– Hello everyone, It’s been much too long since I last wrote! I hope you’re having a wonderful start to 2015. Let me tell you about
Catching up on Harp Tuesday and Slow Motion Monday
Since I last updated I’ve recorded a new Harp Tuesday episode: And two new Slow Motion Monday videos!
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Sunday Spotlight for April 26th, 2015
Welcome to today’s Sunday Spotlight! For this week, I’m going to be rather self indulgent and post three links about me… :) Earth Day was April 22nd, and I was reminded that last year, in an early Earth Day concert, Paula Kifner and I premiered the cello and harp version of my composition Cotton Butterfly:
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Sunday Spotlight for April 19th, 2015
Leading off today’s spotlight is a wonderful piece of free software – GNU Solfege. It offers a whole bunch of useful ear training exercises – good stuff! Then, this is interesting – Wynton Marsalis’s “Twelve Ways to Practice” And finally, I’ll be playing Sir Granville Bantock’s “Hamabdil” in a concert on May 3rd with harp and
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Two upcoming concerts!
I’m performing two concerts the first weekend of May that I wanted to share with you. On Saturday, May 2nd, I’ll be at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Nanaimo, BC, performing a shared concert with Seattle based baritone Craig Nim. I’ll be performing Handel’s Harp Concerto, Grandjany’s Rhapsodie, and Deborah Henson-Conant’s Baroque Flamenco And then
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Sunday Spotlight for April 12, 2015
To lead off this week’s Sunday Spotlight here’s a fascinating video that’s not directly related to music – but an interesting look at performing works today that were created many years ago… Then, this is a fun story :) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/arts/music/michael-fabianos-7-hours-from-call-to-stage-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html And finally, I mentioned IMSLP last week – here’s another great resource for public domain music
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New Harp Tuesday and Slow Motion Monday
I’m a little behind in posting episodes – here’s the Harp Tuesday episode from two weeks ago, plus last week’s Slow Motion Monday episode:
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Sunday Spotlight for April 5, 2015
Leading off today’s Sunday Spotlight, this is fun – various composer’s treble clefs… I originally saw this come by on my facebook feed. A google search turned up various instances of it, but I couldn’t find any attribution for the photo. Also, I assume it’s true, but I haven’t checked… :) Here’s another link with
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