my 1st harp concert
Diane Wild (dwild@slonet.org)
Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:10:15 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, Don -- thank you so much for your encouragement. I DID IT!! And it
was a success.. complete with memory slips and mistakes and forgetting a
major lever change. I learned so much... maybe mainly that people really
do love to listen to the harp and I am too picky... coming from a
classical pianist background. But I also learned a lot about what I still
have to learn: more technique, more technique, more technical practice...
and I WILL... but I played in a small bookstore in a culturally arid city
and had such a warm and loving audience.. and I talked to them and told
them the story of O'Carolan, some things about the history of the harp and
the new experiments in healing and aiding dying things happening... built
and felt a real rapport with them... well... enough!
My best pieces (the
ones that went the best were: Castle of Dromore (kim Robertson's
arrangement and I plugged her records and gave her credit, big time )
and MY OWN
( and first) arrangements of Over the Rainbow and
Shenandoah and Water Is Wide... but my Bach Arioso and Minuet in G were
good too...
and I had worked on them very hard.
Let's see... anything else I want to tell you? I guess I'm even
more committed to 'lever harpage' than before... and that's a lot to say
after the excruciating experience I've been through this last three
months preparing for this event.
Well, thanks for your ear and bandwidth, Don... and cheers to all
you other harpistss and would-be's out there tonight. Guess I'm a litle
high and a litle low. It was a tremendous accomplishment for me to do
this and yet I now know how much farther/further I still have to
go...guess you never know until you put it to the test and evaluate the
results afterward... not pass/fail, but in terms of goals and dreams.
And speaking of dreams, I wish everyone 'sweeet dreams'
Good night , Diane
> > have thumping heart, cold and sweaty palms, etc. etc.... wish me success!
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> I hope it is a big hit.
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> don fair
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Diane Wild dwild@slonet.org
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