Birds don't really need humans to teach them how to be musical. If anything, it's the other way around, as birdsong has inspired human musicality over the years. But there is one aspect of musical ...

itting on stage with her harp resting in her lap, Destiny Muhammad repeats this mantra: “Excellence, Beauty, and Success.” It’s part mic-check and part pump-up. When she first started learning to play ...

Robinson knew about King Saul in the Bible, too. How, when the evil spirit came upon him, David would play the harp and the evil would depart. The 61-year-old grandmother heard stories of musicians ...

Over more than 30 years, Yolanda Kondonassis has shaped American harp playing. How? Training young musicians, advocating for the environment through music, and expanding the harp repertoire. She takes ...

Mikaela Davis is the paragon of a well-funded, mostly public arts education. Davis’ elementary school in Rochester, N.Y. offered third grade students the choice of learning any string or band ...

Robert Maxwell, 28, is one of the top supper-club attractions in Manhattan just now because 1) he learned to play the harp in a good school (Juilliard) and 2) he soon got tired of classic tempos. The ...

What if a spider could play the harp? OK, sure, there aren’t spider virtuosos in little tuxedos out there performing harp concerts. But there is a harp-like musical instrument inspired by a spider’s ...

Margot Krimmel is a harpist based in Boulder, Colorado. In the 1980s, she worked at a ski resort in Vail playing the harp. “I was in my mid-30s, and I pretty much felt like I had won the jackpot,” ...