Apr 15, 2024
When I was preparing for this week’s show, I couldn’t help being reminded of a couple of tired old jokes.
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I
do this.
Doctor:
Then don’t do that.
And,
Patient: Doctor, it hurts and I
don’t know what’s wrong.
Doctor: Take two aspirin and call me in the
morning.
When we’re thinking...
Apr 8, 2024
It’s high time I got up on my soapbox. It’s not often I do a rant on the podcast, but there’s an issue that has me so fired up that I had to talk about it with you.
I believe it’s the result of how we are learning now. There are so many opportunities to learn online, everything from individual live lessons to...
Apr 1, 2024
This podcast episode goes live on April Fool’s Day, and I probably couldn’t have picked a more appropriate day to release it. I didn’t do it on purpose, but today’s topic lines up very nicely with April Fool's. It’s about the fool’s game of self-criticism.
I think the most dangerous pitfall for harpists, or...
Mar 25, 2024
We harpists take our finger placement seriously. Getting the right fingers on the right strings at the right time is paramount. One misplaced finger and a whole passage can go wobbly.
One of the quotes of Johann Sebastian Bach that comes to my mind at this moment is this one: “It's easy to play any musical instrument:...
Mar 18, 2024
Call me crazy if you want. I know your ideal day might be a day at the spa, or sitting on the beach with a good book, or going for a hike in the mountains. Although those all sound good to me, my ideal day - or at least one of my ideal days - would be a day when I could practice all day. A day when I only had to...