New Video Camera for Church & Harp Videos!!
All of the videos I’ve made up until now have been filmed on either of my iPhones: 6s plus and 7. They’re really great for learning the basics and not so complicated you get overwhelmed quickly with features. However. Our St. Stephen’s church videos (and preparations for my harp videos as well) have grown a […]
Lessons from Green Mountain College From Poultney to St. Stephen’s, Middlebury
I’ve really enjoyed making videos for St. Stephen’s this year, and I hope all of you have too! I’ve learned a lot along the way, from improving my production skills to learning how to integrate new video equipment with my long-standing audio recording studio. Until this past year I didn’t have much experience with it […]
New Mac desktop for creating/editing videos! Final Cut Pro X , etc.
Numerous delays this week, including near-missed deadlines for St. Stephen’s as our trusty Mac PowerBook Pro repeatedly overheated and crashed, requiring the acquisition of a new desktop Mac for building weekly church (and harp) videos. The new iMac sports our regularly used iMovie, and I’m in the process of learning Final Cut Pro X, also […]
Ad te Domine Harp Offertory
Here is this Sunday’s (November 29) harp offertory for Communion at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury, VT. (Feature image courtesy of: Photo 105086702 © Oksana Krasiuk | Dreamstime.com ) Like this:Like Loading…
New Harp Video for the First Sunday in Advent
Let My Prayers Rise as the Incense… Here is an improvised arrangement of the Gregorian Introit Ad te Levavi for the first Sunday in Advent. The theme throughout the video is petition through prayer, rising through the mist of incense to God the Father, who hears all our unspoken thoughts. His promise to us is […]
Harp Music for Advent Gregorian Introits
The holidays are almost here, which gives me some time to prepare Advent and Christmas material. When I’m not doing Sunday morning Zoom service videos for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (or taking care of cats!), I’m planning the next batch of Gregorian chant harp videos. At present I’m working on arranging and recording four Gregorian […]
Adoro Te Devote Irish wire harp video for St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Middlebury, VT
Here is my first full wire harp music video offering for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church where George is organist. I’ve been producing weekly videos for them all summer during the Covid-19 lockdown on George’s YouTube channel, in addition to recording him on piano and pipe organ for the incredibly popular (and successful!) online hymn contest run by […]
New Harp Videos! Keeping busy...
I haven’t been posting to my blog much lately… because I’ve been busy recording! And making videos. Tons of them. Below are several to get you started. Here’s Jasmine Kitty and me on our respective harps, me on my Stoney End Esabelle wire cross-strung and Jazzie on her cardboard kit Fireside harp from Backyard Music. […]
This is My Father’s World Husband George Matthew Jr. plays hymn improvisations!
Here is something different from harps and cats: George plays hymn improvisations on his Kimball parlor grand piano for his church congregation, St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Middlebury, Vermont, where he is organist on their historic 1875 tracker Johnson pipe organ. Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, church services cannot be held so I’ve been helping George make […]
Cantate Domino Sing to the Lord a New Song (or play it on your harp?)
Here is the second track on the 1936 record Rythmique Grégorienne, uploaded to YouTube by Folklore Québécois and reissued by Sony-Universal on a four-CD set in 2011. The Introit Cantate Domino is sung by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Benoït-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada: Below you can see a page from the 1948 book Rythmique […]