In today’s spotlight we start with a wild instrument apparently designed by Leonardo Da Vinci which is part piano, part string instrument (click the “cc” button for English subtitles): I may have posted this before, but this talk by Evelyn Glennie is always worth a watch: I’ll be playing the harp part for Stravinsky’s Firebird […]
Sunday Spotlight for Feb. 15th, 2015 Read More »
For this week’s Sunday Spotlight we start with a video of cellist and composer Zoë Keating. She does some super cool stuff with looping – recording herself as she plays and then playing back a section as she moves on to play something new – in a sense creating a whole orchestra on her own…
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In today’s Sunday Spotlight we have: “I never practise scales” says violinist James Ehnes. (I’m certainly always a proponent of creating exercises from the music on which you are working…) Valentina Lisitsa is an fantastic pianist (who credits YouTube for a lot of her success). Any or all of the videos on her channel are
Sunday Spotlight for Feb. 1st, 2015 Read More »
Just posted a new Harp Tuesday episode, plus I have some catching up to do – here are the episodes that I’ve recorded since my last Harp Tuesday update:
New Harp Tuesday episode is up! Read More »
Hi all, One of my goals for 2015 is to do more creation – including writing more on this blog and generally producing more content for it… So I’m bringing back “Sunday Spotlight” – every week I’ll be posting three music related links that I enjoyed or found interesting. This week we have: Can you
Sunday Spotlight returns – Jan. 25th Read More »
I did my first ever streaming concert yesterday – all in all I felt it was a rousing success – thanks so much to everyone who tuned in! This was all rather spur of the moment. I wanted to do something special to celebrate Harp Tuesday‘s 4th birthday. I’d had some vague thoughts of doing
Live-stream after report Read More »
As I mentioned in my last post, to celebrate 4 years of Harp Tuesday I’m going to live-stream a concert for you! The concert will start at 11am Pacific Standard Time on Nov. 30th. That’s 2pm EST, 7pm GMT, etc. Click on the YouTube link above to see a countdown timer. Show up a few
More live-stream details: (Nov. 30th) Read More »
To celebrate 4 years of Harp Tuesday (to the day!) I will be live-streaming a short concert on Sunday, Nov. 30th at 2pm 11am (note changed time) Pacific Standard Time. This will be my first attempt at live-streaming – I’m excited! More details soon – meanwhile, here’s the intro to the first ever Harp Tuesday episode
I will be live-streaming a concert on YouTube this Sunday (Nov. 30th) Read More »
Hot on the heels of my video of a performance of Handel’s Concerto for Harp, here’s the first of most likely three Harp Tuesday episodes talking about the piece!
Harp Tuesday ep. 83 is up! A look at the 1st Movement of Handel’s Harp Concerto Read More »
Here’s a video I put together of the Handel Harp Concerto from a recent performance that I recorded with two different video cameras. Very happy with how it turned out!
Video: Handel’s “Concerto for Harp” Read More »