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Okay. Stop it! You insist on inspiring me, don’t you?! 😄. Really lovely, Stephanie! You make it look so easy & sound so calming! Thank you for sharing your gift with us in cyber space! Someday…

So wonderful ! Bless you my friend !

Fargo is a great city! Thanks for sharing.

So serene and flowing. I really enjoy your music. Thank you for sharing.

Stephanie that is amazing. I see some challenging rhythms in that as well! Very very nice!

Lovely! I can feel how much your father means to you.

Beautiful music. I love how happy you look playing!

Brava, bravissima, Stephanie! What a brave thing to compose out of your own head/heat! I’ll bet your dad is button-busting proud…& honored! My dad was very much the same way, so if you don’t mind, my own father’s image will fill my head every time I listen to this. 🥰

Wonderful!!!

What a sweet tribute to your father! Beautiful piece and performance!

Beautiful, bravo. And performed with love. Thank you, you are a tribute to the harpist in the world.

Interesting and incredible, well done. ❤

Thankyou for making this understandable!

Please, we need more of thease!💕

Stephanie - I just can’t say enough how much I love your choices of music and how beautifully you arrange them for harp! Thank you for sharing your gift with us out here in Cyber-land! (Love John Rutter’s work, SO much, too). Btw, I definitely recognized “Savior Of The Nations, Come!” I’m not the child of a church musician for nothing! 😄 You may be interested to know that I am working on your arrangement of “Still, Still, Still” for Christmas @ my church. Your fingerings make so much more sense now that I have learned more about what I am (or should be) doing. 🤭. Happy harping!

I wondered what happened to her. I used to listen to her out at the MN. Renaissance Festival. Sometimes with her Dad on violin.

Qué belleza Stephanie !!!!! qué belleza, dónde puedo conseguir la partitura ?? where can I get the sheet music?

Wow 30 years - so what do you recommend for a beginner - well I am beginning again playing harp - I had a harp and played but stopped and now I am starting again? Do you have any recommends for starting? I think my biggest challenge is the rhythm. I only play lever harp for now. LOL.

I wish i had a bunch of harp playing siblings. That looks like Sooo much fun! 🎶🌞🎵🎶

I can’t get over how beautiful all your arrangements and music videos are! I love them all so much!

I love the contrast and similarities of people getting together a long time ago vs. now.

This video is so well done! Your videos are always great, but this one was so well put together with flow, story, annotations, and everything well done! Thanks for sharing, Steph.

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that can’t get a song perfect in the first few tries! Thanks for showing us your mistakes-and the perfect mix of humor. 😄

This is so beautiful!

I wanna know in what world is 200 pages not a lot of music for someone 😅 great job !!!

This was fascinating to watch. And encouraging too. Thanks for being willing to share this journey with us. Congrats!

As usual brilliant. This is really helpful, now I just need to know how to stop my brain from playing my pieces ALL the time, most of the night my fingers are moving with difficult passages and I hear both hands in my mind. It’s actually nice as I learn pieces quickly, but it’s also tiring as I don’t sleep 😂. Do you have that too ??? Thanks again 🙏

Love this!....the notes sound like swollen raindrops falling into a large still body of water....I love the mood and that liquid sound...

That was amazing, it’s a real inspiration! Thanks!🙏

SUCH a helpful video!! It was fantastic to watch as you broke things down and set goals for yourself. I love how concretely you shared your process; you made it feel accessible and now it is possible for me to imagine approaching my own project in a similar way..... THANK YOU!!

I already struggle with 1 sheet a day. Practice is so difficult I wish you could just skip to being able to play the thing.

Holy cow Stephanie. I can’t even imagine! Thank you for sharing this. When you said it was zero degrees, I had to go back and check your posted date on this video! I thought dang I thought it was cool here today but we made it to 67! 😂 I’m curious, since I used to play in orchestras with flute, I noticed certain conductors would omit certain instruments for whatever reason, whether it be budget, or he just couldn’t find an available instrumentalist. It was actually quite rare I’d see a harpist. I wondered if maybe these were just scores without harp parts, or are there few scores that contain them? Now that I’m playing harp I wonder, do you tend to get call backs quite often from the same conductors, who have you in their”Rolodex”😊? Because, you seem to keep quite busy with orchestras. If I could play half as good as you I’d feel like I’m in heaven! The last time I played 200 pages…. Ha, you know I haven’t played 200 pages! But even when I was playing flute I don’t think I prepared anything even close in that short a time. I did have a lot of music thrown at me very late in the game though, and it was very stressful. But I always seemed to get through it. This was terrific. Thanks for sharing Stephanie. I’m sure editing all of this footage for this video took quite a while too.

Of course you did it! You are the BEST! Thank you for being honest & thoroughly inspiring us mere mortal newbies! I’ve only been playing for 6 mos, but when my bff asked me to play at her mother’s funeral in May, I could hardly say no! It certainly focused my practice time! 😁. You are right, though. It is a good thing for a musician to accept those challenges to grow! 🥰

I want to be you when I grow up.

I think the craziest thing I've ever done may have been a 30 page long mass (part of the chorus and that's score not individual part and it turned out we weren't singing ALL of it but I didn't know that and I'd never seen it before so I worked on all of it), plus a motet, plus still working on non-performance music for a recorder group and for the recorder and voice lessons I was taking - in one week. That was last summer. That december was also nuts. There was a concert, a church service, and a special advent spiral thing.The big yearly fundraiser for the church music program, and the other me playing Christmas and advent carols on the recorder solo for half an hour. I only had a few days notice for the carols, but at least the music was simple and I'd played or sung many of the tunes before. I think there may have been the pre-christmas recorder recital I was playing a couple of pieces in a trio, plus one of the telemann solo recorder fantasias, but I'm getting a bit blurred as to how close that was to everything else. At some point that december I did a vocal solo piece in the voice department's concert. And of course there were sunday services every sunday. And Christmas was very tiring. Sunday service christmas eve morning, midnight mass, then christmas morning service. I only got about 5 hours sleep. My voice gave out a stanza or two before the end of the Christmas day service. That December was probably about the craziest I've done so far, and it wasn't on a professional basis, so mistakes are more tolerated. It's a good way to learn where your limits are at that point in time.

You are amazing!❤

200 pages is A LOT to prepare in a month. Yikes.

Hehe the hummingbird part :)

Really interesting video, thank you for sharing your process!

First like! 😁

For a sweet vintage movie check out The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp - starring Diane Cilento (Mrs Sean Connery at the time)

My take on thecred strings is that way back Carlos Salzedo noticed that his red strings being coated with a red dye did not break as often as the clear gut - so he had a set made using the red on the strings to minimize breakage - i knew a vintage harp here red strung and it was totally impossible for me to play - i simply cpuld not adjust

Genius!

If you forget which levers go up to get back to the key of C, you can remember the acronym Eggs Always Break. 😀

Very helpful tips. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful

I can listen to this all day, so tranquil, i was blown away. The setting, everything 👍. My intro to you was "you are my sunshine" on a nice porch, i appreciate your work and am subscribed now👍👍

There you are, in that beautiful tropical jungle. Meantime, it's gray and foggy outside, with bare trees, and almost no view! 🎶🎵😳🎶

Sounds beautiful, my favorite song, great job👍

You were created for the harp and the harp for you. It is an expression of your Spirit. You exude joy and gentleness. Your settings are beyond compare. What a gift you are. I can only imagine the hours of dedication to your craft. Thank you for sharing your musicality with us! Blessings from Toronto!