The harp is praised as music played with heavenly strings. So it makes perfect sense to have a harpist named Angel. Angel Simmons, 51, has been playing the harp since she was 10. And her musical ...

Fifteen-year-old harpist Sarah Lorene Rice uses her music to express her Christianity. "It's very important to express my beliefs through music. I think our beliefs should come out in every aspects of ...

TOWSON, Md. (AP) Across the country, more harpists can be seen at the bedsides of the dying. In a small but growing movement, the musicians are receiving medical training to play for those living ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Celtic ...

Musikfest’s Chamber series was unusually strong on harp music this year, with two concerts featuring this heavenly instrument. On Aug. 28, a mother-daughter harp duet who actually call themselves ...

To most people, the harp is a heavenly instrument, with its bright sound and sweeping glissandi. But to the musicians who spend their lives playing one, there are elements that bring the instrument ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay — The sounds of heaven, plucked on 36 strings, fill the ramshackle houses and potholed streets of this sleepy capital. Some of that music comes from the basement of harp master ...

MBOMBELA – The crowd listened attentively to the trio as they delivered a world-class performance at the music teacher, Prinsloo’s home, as part of preparations for the upcoming Wakkerstroom Music ...

Philadelphia Orchestra's Principal Bassist Joseph Conyers is back as co-host as we meet a bright teen harpist whose commitment to her instrument is so strong she commutes weekly from Virginia to New ...

Attendees will learn to play songs by ear at a 2-hour class each morning, Johnston says, then have the rest of the day to enjoy “hiking, beach-combing, birding, whale watching, practising, and ...