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 […]
I wish I was the composer of this…
This extraordinary work is not a harp piece but is worth a listen. It’s by Vatican composer Father Marco Frisina, who has composed and recorded hundreds of organ and choral works over the decades. The first time I heard it, I wished I had written it. It is really that profound and that beautiful. A […]
Harps in memory of our beloved kitties…
After two months of carefully changing out my bronze wires for copper phosphor bronze ones and bringing my double-strung harp up to tension (currently at A=390, Baroque pitch), my newest wire harp is ready to make his grand appearance at our Christmas Eve services! In the harp world, we tend to give our harps a name. […]