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On-demand interviews with local and national classical music artists.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Composing for the Harp

Yolanda Kondonassis and Keith Fitch
Yolanda Kondonassis and Keith Fitch

But were afraid to ask. Yolanda Kondonassis, internationally renowned harpist, and Keith Fitch, her colleague at the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he heads the composition department) talk about the joys and perils of writing for that mysterious instrument, the harp, and Yolanda talks about her new book,  The Composer's Guide to Writing Well for the Modern Harp, published by Carl Fischer.