Category Archives: Sunday Spotlight

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, … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

To start this week, a link that got posted on one of the harp email lists I’m on (hat-tip to Janis) – “Musical Migrants” about musical emigrants from the Val d’Agri (Italy).  Tons of pictures of harps and a fascinating … Continue reading →

One of my favourite moments at the World Harp Congress in 2011 was listening to Sylvain Blassel give a spellbind performance of the entire Bach Goldberg Variations.  Here’s a video of him playing a portion of it: (You can buy … Continue reading →

It’s International Women’s Day today!  Here’s a fascinating look at the gender makeup of the “top 20” US orchestras.  Last week I posted a link to an interview with 100 year old former MET harpist, Reinhardt Elster.  In the interview … Continue reading →

To lead off with this week, a link that came up on both my facebook feed and one of the harp email lists I’m a part of – an article about 100 year old former MET harpist, Reinhardt Elster. And … Continue reading →