Harp

Arranging Project

The song I chose to play is “Cherry Blossom” by Lana Del Rey. This song is from her seventh studio album and was written by Lana and Rick Nowels. This song was originally written as a lullaby and has an introspective view of the death of childhood along with a calm melody that could rock you to sleep. This piece was very fun to turn into a harp piece because it was mainly a slow piano ballad that could be translated very easily.

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Practical Harpist Project

Mattie Tibbetts is a 9th grade student at Drew Charter School in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a member of the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble and has been playing the Harp for 5 years. Tibbetts has performed at the PGA Tour Championship Brunch and earned a superior rating for her solo performance of Flying South by Catherine Cater at the Georgia Music Educator's Association Spring 2023 Solo & Ensemble Contest. In addition to Harp, she is on the Varsity Drew Girls soccer team and had been a member of the Atlanta Junior Roller Derby team for 4 years. She is a finalist for the Congress Bundestag youth exchange and will be studying abroad next year. In her free time, she enjoys baking, crocheting and hanging out with friends. In the future Tibbetts wants to study at University of Georgia and Major in biology with a path to Veterinary medicine.

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Haikus - August 19, 2022

I thought this piece it was really good. I really enjoyed the tune key slide, I thought it really added to the piece and was fun to play. I think our final performance was really good and the way that our harps were set up really worked with the piece and tied back into the haiku. I really enjoyed learning the haikus because it was really fun techniques.

I thought that the sparrows piece was going to be hard but it ended up being easy once we learned the techniques. Some challenges were putting some things together that maybe didn't sound the greatest together. It was fun to put this piece together because we got to work with each other and it helped us kind of anticipate what each other were going to do. I think our final performance was really good, we all worked together well and we were able to get the crescendos and decrescendos with each other. I honestly don't think I would change anything.

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