By Anne Sullivan
Is your music stand just holding your music?
What if I told you your music stand could actually inspire you in your practice each day? You’d probably think...
By Anne Sullivan
It’s a dark summer night and you’re sitting outside under the stars with some friends. The campfire is dying and you can hear the sounds of nature around you as...
By Anne Sullivan
The Olympic Games begin this week in Paris and once again the greatest athletes in the world will be the center of our attention.
In sports, it is often easy to identify the...
If harp playing were just about our fingers, it wouldn’t be such hard work.
We ask a lot of our fingers, naturally. We want them to play faster, to produce a more beautiful tone, to...
by Anne Sullivan
We just celebrated another Independence Day here in the United States and it reminded me how much we harpists depend on the independence, and interdependence, of our fingers...
By Anne Sullivan
Summertime is fun, but it can come with an “ouch” or two. You might get a little sunburn in that place you missed with sunscreen, or get a bug bite or a jellyfish...
By Anne Sullivan
Summer is here and perhaps your calendar isn’t looking as full as you’d like it to be. There is still time to get more work this summer, if you take action now....
By Anne Sullivan
That moment of excitement, the crisp, clean page of music full of promise. It’s a brand new adventure – the starting of a new piece. When I was a student, it was...
By Anne Sullivan
When I was a harp student, there were very few choices for music camps, let alone harp camps. Now, there are harp camps everywhere, and I think that’s terrific.
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By Anne Sullivan
Summertime is string breaking time. You can’t always prevent string breakage. But there are things you can do to keep the inconvenience and expense to a minimum.
- The...
What’s the buzz about this piece?
“Dragonflies in the Sunshine” was originally written for piano by Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 – 1910). Reinecke was a German...
Imagine that you have just graduated from music school. Perhaps that’s a dream of yours. Or maybe you’re not sure if a career in music is right for you. Either way, imagine that...
