Springfield Harp Studio

Check out the livestream of the Springfield Youth Symphony tonight, including Sadie in the harp section. https://youtu.be/_-x7BoBLC3M

"Harpo (Marx) learned how to hold the harp by emulating a harp-playing angel in a picture he saw in a five-and-dime. No one in town knew how to play the harp, s...o Harpo tuned it the best he could, starting with one basic note and tuning it from there. He began learning to play the instrument without lessons. Three years later, he found out he had tuned it incorrectly, but that his method placed much less tension on the strings. Dispute Harpo's musical talent, he never learned to read nor write music. Although he paid top musicians handsome fees to teach him "proper" harp-playing technique, he maintained his unique style his entire life (his "teachers," fascinated by his technique, spent their sessions watching and listening as Marx performed). The major exception was Mildred Dilling, the professional harpist who finally taught Harpo proper harp technique and collaborated with him regularly when he had difficulty composing. Upon his death, one of Harpo's harps was donated to the State of Israel, and eventually found a home in an Israeli orchestra."-Wikipedia See more

Il peut tout jouer à la harpe... même du reggae ! Merci à Alexander Boldachev pour ce momet de douceur aux notes de Bob Marley.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJmM4HZFT8A/

All students will now be expected to wear this ensemble to lessons:

Alice Coltrane was one of the first jazz harpists. Her husband was the jazz artist John Coltrane.

If you’ve ever wanted to know what the inside of a harp works...

In honor of the birthday of Jules Massenet...the Meditation from Thais with Jill Woodhouse.

Congratulations to Stanley Lancaster, class of 2020. He has studied harp since the age of 8. Stanley will attend Missouri State as a Music major with music and academic scholarships.