ANYONE attending a symphony concert can spot the gorgeous, gleaming harp, even from the last row of the last balcony. Children and adults alike gasp at the size of it, at its sparkling gold crown ...

Most of the original harp players were men … and many of them were blind. Her workshop is the attic of her home. She looks like a pixie amongst all of the stacked timbers and harp parts ...

The harp makes a magical sound, but not many composers have known how to take full advantage of it. Verdi and Puccini operas have good harp parts, and Debussy and Mahler are among the orchestral ...

Houston’s harp goddess By KIRSTEN SALYER July 16, 2008 Before her days as an instructor, Bonnie Goodrich had quite an impressive career as harpist in her own right.

As Neill sees it, “the 20th century has been our time. Stravinsky wrote a lot of very important harp parts. He didn’t necessarily write well for the instrument, but they’re brilliant, so all ...