Notre Dame Cathedral Reopens!
A friend very kindly texted me a live stream video link of the reopening ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, celebrating five long years of monumental reconstruction after the devastating fire in 2019. Here is an archived YouTube video from Friends of Notre Dame de Paris: It’s a four-hour long video… the beautifully restored […]
Playing sacred music on the Irish wire-strung harp From reading neums to playing strings...
Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. – Psalm 98:5 My preceding posts on reading Gregorian chant didn’t go into how to play it on the wire-strung harp. Gregorian chant is a vocal music, not an instrumental one. So there’s a little bit of re-interpretation here. […]
Update on my harp! Triplett Luna
My 15 year old Triplett Luna wire harp made the 3,000+ miles trip from Vermont to San Luis Obispo, California in July, back to the workshops of Triplett Harps for a much-needed rebuild. After I accidentally knocked over my harp while recovering from Covid this past winter, the instrument was severely damaged and needed major repairs. […]