Welcome to Harping On: Thoughts from a Recovering Organist. This was Parker Ramsay’s blog from 2015-2024, which was more or less neglected since the pandemic. Feel free to browse, but you are also invited to subscribe to Parker’s brand new Substack at Piping Down: Thoughts from a Recalcitrant Harpist.
- A Golden Wire, Concert January 16
- Dec 21 // The Frick Collection
- Substack
- Quodiblet
- Feigning It
- EMA: On Programming
- Purcell
- Debussy (again)
- Munich
- Osios David
- Bach
- Four Articles for EMA
- Marsyas
- LHR —> JFK
- Anyway
- To Grantchester and Back
- Omolu
- Deray
- Variation 2: Calvino
- Variation 1: Emerson et al.
- Visconti and Wagner
- New York Times Essay: Is Bach Better on Harp?
- The Goldblogs: Aria
- Hitchcock and Poulenc
- Wharton, Scorsese and Gounod
- Visconti and Bruckner
- Godard (and Mao)
- Rivette and Couperin
- Orson Welles (and Nazis)
- Depardieu and Dutilleux
- On Tuning: A Brief Playlist
- St. Cecilia’s Day, 2019
- Var. I, II, III
- Shanghai, Day 1: Schmelzer
- Ovid
- Strauss
- Ricercar (1/6)
- Luzzaschi
- An Interview (7)(8)(9)
- Hai-Q’s
- Charleston, 4am
- Zubarán
- Couperin
- Nabokov
- Russia
- Space Purcell
- Trachis
- A New Year?
- Advent II
- An Interview (6)
- Café Grumpy
- Milton
- The Mickey Mouse March
- An Interview (4)
- An Interview (3)
- Lunchmeat
- An Interview (2)
- Young Caesar
- Bassani’s Quinceañera
- Reading Flaubert in Prague
- Postcard from Germany: Berlin
- Postcard from Germany: Leipzig
- Postcard from Germany: Kassel
- Postcard from Germany: Heidelberg
- Postcard from Germany: Kiel
- Postcard from Germany: Koblenz
- School Sucks
- Poe
- Gesualdo
- An Interview
- BedStuy
- Stumptown, 29th Street
- Albinoni
- Ligeti
- Epiphany
- Ganymede
- Scrooge
- Pumpkin Spice Proust
- Peaches
- Warts
- Oberlin
- Other writings
- Berlioz, Binchois
- Needles
- Orpheus at Juilliard
- H.I.P. (Hannibal’s iTunes Playlist)
- Clair de Lune
- Country Music and the 1968 Election
- Preludes
- Miami, 1972 – Nashville, 1966
- Milwaukee, 1964
- My right ear
- On Celery
- Montgomery, 1958
- Nashville, 1974
- Weetabix
- More Summer Reading
- Summer Reading
- For Meryl