September 2011
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Some words on the ever elusive art of practising
For those of you thinking ‘When the #*$% is Katya going to write a blog about her new practice techniques?!’ – you can now relax.
I am working with some new practice methods, and I’m going to tell you all about them! [the crowd goes wild]
Credit where credit’s due, these are not my inventions, but have been given to me as practice gifts by my teacher, and harp-goddess Deborah Henson-Conant.
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My 3-Month Jazz Intensive with Deborah...
Here’s the information on a need-to-know basis:
My name is Katya, and I’m at the beginning of a 3 month Jazz-Intensive-Study-Program with Deborah Henson-Conant, the world’s foremost electric harpist.
She was described by the Boston Globe as ’A combination of Leonard Bernstein, Steven Tyler and Xena, the Warrior Princess.’
This description is disturbingly accurate.
A few years ago, I never...
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Learning to Ride a Bicycle as a Grown-Up
Before I came to Arlington, I was a non-cyclist.
Not that I never tried to learn. I learnt as a child, and refuting the saying, like a shit elephant, I FORGOT.
Inexplicably, every boyfriend I have ever had has tried to teach me. Tumbles were met with stomped-on helmets and fist shaking. One such fool - generous and patient - tried to teach me how to turn by laying his jacket on the...
