[Harp-L] Quick Report on Bonfiglio's Grand Canyon Seminar

[Slim Heilpern <slim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just back from Bonfiglio's Grand Canyon Seminar, some quick highlights:

- Robert was gracious as always with his knowledge and patience, passing 
on many valuable techniques and approaches to mastering the chromatic. I 
especially enjoyed his coverage of various kinds of articulation, tongue 
blocking, and corner switching. He presented a ton of great information.

- This was my second Bonfiglio seminar and while there was a fair amount 
of overlap from the first, it was never boring and I was better prepared 
to absorb the lessons the second time around. Before attending the first 
seminar last summer, I was totally self-taught on this instrument. Funny 
thing, it turns out there were a number of things that never occurred to 
me about my instrument and the many ways it can be played ;-).

- There was also a full day with Rob Paparozzi as instructor - totally 
inspiring!

- It's been a while since my last visit to the grand canyon and this was 
a spectacular week to be there. The weather was fantastic and Penny and 
I got to see about 25 california condors in flight (at the same time) 
over the canyon on our last day. Amazing.

- There were two evening classical concerts featuring some really great 
musicians (including Robert and his wife Clare Hoffman on flute) -- 
quite an eclectic and refreshing program and the level of musicianship 
was astounding.

- There were two evening harmonica jams, always big fun.

- Bonfiglio's birthday bash on wednesday night was a real kick, with 
many musical highlights including Rob Paparozzi's super-fine playing and 
singing. His chromatic playing continues to amaze me (not too shabby on 
the diatonic either ;-). Of course the real highlight for me was a guest 
appearance by vocalist Penny Hanna ;-).

- Perhaps most importantly, got to meet some wonderful players and 
fellow students of the chromatic, great bunch of folks...

Thanks, Robert, for putting together another fantastic seminar!!!!

- Slim.

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