Try being a lone female vocalist when, suddenly, 50 baritones, tenors and basses directly behind you break into “O Holy Night.” “It’s like being caught on a big wave, like a surfer. There you go,” ...

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 ...

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has not need to hire a harpist for the Principal Harp position since 1966. In 2017, Suzanne Thomas, who held that position, retired from the ensemble creating a ...

Stephanie Miller, of Shaler, plays the musical instrument with ease. Watching her fingers glide across the strings to produce harmonious sounds soothes those around her. Often they forget about a ...

WILLMAR -- Music shimmers forth as Donna Jo Kopitzke gently plucks the strings of her Reverie Harp. The sounds linger, then slowly fade. Rice Hospice recently began using the soothing notes of the ...

When he was just a young boy growing up in South America, Edmar Castaneda knew he was destined to play the harp. The Columbian composer and musician, who was born in Bogotá in 1978, came to the United ...

The harp is an ancient instrument, but in its current form, it seems so unwieldy that it’s a wonder that anyone ever learns to play it. It’s one thing to tote a rented trumpet or clarinet home from ...

It is said that in ancient times, the three things considered indispensable to a gentleman were his harp, cloak and chessboard. Wednesday morning, Douglas Rioth only had the harp. It was lying in the ...

Some of the coolest sounds come from wild instruments like orchestra strings, fretless basses, and theremins — instruments that aren’t tied down by the constraints of frets and other kinds of note ...