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raven_cromwellWhile I love every form of music imagineable, my heart belongs with strings. Which means classical is so entirely my jam that I'll try absolutely anything with the word symphony in it. So when Streaming Musicals announced a free week-long stream of Deborah Henson-Conant's Invention and Alchemy complete with the Grand Rapids orchestra, the words symphony and orchestra dragged me to the sign-up page well before I knew a thing about Deborah Henson-Conant.
There're a couple wonderful virtual videos available pre-stream, including an utterly magnificent behind-the-scenes of the concert that's served to convince me what a wonderful experience this's going to be. (That I still can't believe we're getting for free!)
But my favorite of her videos is her Ted Talk, about inventing the electric harp, starting from your garden-variety concert harp. I've seen a lot! of Ted talks--they're amazing 19-minute rabbit holes I can wander down and learn about anything, and they draw me like moths to flame. This's hands-down the most dynamic. creative one I've ever witnessed. Her vision and fearlessness, and the way she has the audience eating out of her hands is just! astonishing. Watch, and then go sign up for concert reminders!
There're a couple wonderful virtual videos available pre-stream, including an utterly magnificent behind-the-scenes of the concert that's served to convince me what a wonderful experience this's going to be. (That I still can't believe we're getting for free!)
But my favorite of her videos is her Ted Talk, about inventing the electric harp, starting from your garden-variety concert harp. I've seen a lot! of Ted talks--they're amazing 19-minute rabbit holes I can wander down and learn about anything, and they draw me like moths to flame. This's hands-down the most dynamic. creative one I've ever witnessed. Her vision and fearlessness, and the way she has the audience eating out of her hands is just! astonishing. Watch, and then go sign up for concert reminders!
