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Part 2: Interview with Ann Heymann
Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with harpist, teacher, composer, and historian, Ann Heymann. In Part 2 of our interview Ann and I are joined by Kathy DeAngelo, the director of The Somerset Folk Harp Festival, who like Siobhán Armstrong of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland, are each giving Ann lifetime achievement awards this summer.
This chat is really where Ann and I talk about how the harp is an icon. We discuss the mythology of the harp, The Dadga, The Tuatha Dé Danann, and legends and metaphors embedded in the harp. As Ann says, “..I realized that encoded within the legends are all of these metaphors which connect. It makes it magic, it makes it true, it makes it real. It’s like a formula embedded...trying to connect the whole world and life…Music was magic.”
On Teaching and Learning
Ann talks about being, “addicted to ‘ah-ha’ moments” and how she loves teaching and learns so much from her students and finds that the feedback she gets in lessons is really nice.
Ann is always learning and wanting to gain more insight into her own playing which has prompted Ann to release a new verion of her first tutorial on the harp, “Secrets of the Gaelic Harp”. The second book will be entitled, “Secrets of the Gaelic Harp in the Second Manor.”
Some Highlights of Ann’s Career:
We discuss highlights of her career including:
Her time at Granard and her first harp competition there.
After doing the Pibroch Ann got drawn into other things. She was involved in other aspects of the harp and after doing that Ann got involved with doing the Telyn Rawn, the horsehair harp. Ann says that she a learned so much from doing the Telyn Rawn project. She hasn’t released the recordings yet of her performance on The Telyn Rawn at Brecon Cathedral and at Tewkesbury Abbey.
Visit Ann’s website to purchase her music, schedule a lesson, read up on her amazing research, and more. Ann will be teaching online this summer at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival and will be receiving lifetime achievement awards from Somerset and The Historical Harp Society of Ireland at their Scoil na gCláirseach, Festival of Irish Harp Festival both happening this July.
A big thank you to the folks at Temple Records in Scotland for giving me permission to use some of Ann’s recordings on this podcast. Check out their website https://www.templerecords.co.uk/
LINKS
Ann Heymann: annheymann.com
Temple Records: https://www.templerecords.co.uk/
Brecon Cathedral: visitwales.com/en-us/attraction/historic-site/brecon-cathedral-911451
Tewkesbury Abbey: tewkesburyabbey.org.uk
The Robert ap Huw manuscript: pbm.com/~lindahl/ap_huw
Granard Harp Festival: facebook.com/GranardHarpFestival
The Historical Harp Society of Ireland: irishharp.org/
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Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with harpist, teacher, composer, and historian, Ann Heymann. In Part 2 of our interview Ann and I are joined by Kathy DeAngelo, the director of The Somerset Folk Harp Festival, who like Siobhán Armstrong of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland, are each giving Ann lifetime achievement awards this summer.
This chat is really where Ann and I talk about how the harp is an icon. We discuss the mythology of the harp, The Dadga, The Tuatha Dé Danann, and legends and metaphors embedded in the harp. As Ann says, “..I realized that encoded within the legends are all of these metaphors which connect. It makes it magic, it makes it true, it makes it real. It’s like a formula embedded...trying to connect the whole world and life…Music was magic.”
On Teaching and Learning
Ann talks about being, “addicted to ‘ah-ha’ moments” and how she loves teaching and learns so much from her students and finds that the feedback she gets in lessons is really nice.
Ann is always learning and wanting to gain more insight into her own playing which has prompted Ann to release a new verion of her first tutorial on the harp, “Secrets of the Gaelic Harp”. The second book will be entitled, “Secrets of the Gaelic Harp in the Second Manor.”
Some Highlights of Ann’s Career:
We discuss highlights of her career including:
Her time at Granard and her first harp competition there.
After doing the Pibroch Ann got drawn into other things. She was involved in other aspects of the harp and after doing that Ann got involved with doing the Telyn Rawn, the horsehair harp. Ann says that she a learned so much from doing the Telyn Rawn project. She hasn’t released the recordings yet of her performance on The Telyn Rawn at Brecon Cathedral and at Tewkesbury Abbey.
Visit Ann’s website to purchase her music, schedule a lesson, read up on her amazing research, and more. Ann will be teaching online this summer at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival and will be receiving lifetime achievement awards from Somerset and The Historical Harp Society of Ireland at their Scoil na gCláirseach, Festival of Irish Harp Festival both happening this July.
A big thank you to the folks at Temple Records in Scotland for giving me permission to use some of Ann’s recordings on this podcast. Check out their website https://www.templerecords.co.uk/
LINKS
Ann Heymann: annheymann.com
Temple Records: https://www.templerecords.co.uk/
Brecon Cathedral: visitwales.com/en-us/attraction/historic-site/brecon-cathedral-911451
Tewkesbury Abbey: tewkesburyabbey.org.uk
The Robert ap Huw manuscript: pbm.com/~lindahl/ap_huw
Granard Harp Festival: facebook.com/GranardHarpFestival
The Historical Harp Society of Ireland: irishharp.org/