Deborah Henson-Conant is the most dynamic harpist on today's harp scene. In her new DVD, Invention & Alchemy, Deborah leads you on a tour through her madcap imagination, telling the tallest of truthful tales. With her solid-body electric lever harp and her electric pedal harp, Deborah wails the blues, sways to a sweet song, and jives to flamenco. See our "Top Reasons" below for more detailed (and fun) information about this amazing DVD.
A CD version of this concert is also available. See the "Related Items" section below.
This DVD includes the following titles, orchestrated by Henson-Conant and performed live by Deborah with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra featuring conductor cellist David Lockington:
Baroque Flamenco
The Nightingale
Danger Zone
Catcher in the Rye
Merceditas
The Garbageman
Way You Are Blues
996
Congratulations, You Made it This Far
Cosita Latina
The Minstrel & the Wild Harp
Nataliana
The Top 15.8 Reasons Why You Should Have Deborah Henson-Conant's "Invention & Alchemy" DVD
• You've been searching for a DVD of a live harp performance. Well, here it is! And it's the best 97-minute live harp performance to emerge in a long time -- if ever! With all the extras, you'll have 145 minutes of pure entertaining enjoyment!
• You can't get enough of Deborah! Now you've got her! Anytime!
• Play lever harp? So does she! The first half features her electric lever harp. But wait . . . you play pedal? So does she! The second half highlights her electric pedal harp.
• A "One-Woman Show with a Cast of 80." Not only is Deborah featured in this entertaining DVD, but you also get the Grand Rapids Symphony, as well! This show includes talented orchestra members the way a movie includes actors. A symphony orchestra dressed in lab coats!? You have just to see it!
• This is no homemade video made by a guy standing in the corner holding a cam-corder. It is a highly professional, exquisitely lighted, filmed, and edited masterpiece. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Bob Comiskey, this live concert DVD was shot in high-def video with 9 cameras. The audio was recorded in 5.1 surround sound by Grammy Award-winning engineer Tom Bates.
• Many of Deborah's beautiful melodies are included. You can learn these pieces yourself from some of Deborah's published sheet music, like Nataliana and The Nightingale.
• There's Deborah's great birthday song that you can sing for your friends -- and even for yourself!
• Cool extras! Follow the "white rabbit" icon down numerous video portals and peek behind the scenes.
• More cool extras! Besides the live show, there's an 18-minute "behind-the-scenes" film with interviews, rehearsal takes, and musical excerpts.
• What a great way to introduce someone to the harp! We GUARANTEE that people will say "I never knew the harp could do that!"
• Up-Close And Personal Hair! See Deborah's bevy of braided baubles swing and sway.
• The conductor is really cute and has a dreamy English accent.
• Use parts of the DVD as a Screen Saver! Choose your favorite scene and download it as a screen saver on your computer. Change it weekly, hourly, by the minute!
• Deborah's new DVD will make you laugh, it will make you cry. You'll be singing along. It's romantic. It's moving. It's bigger than life. It's intimate. It's silly. (O.K., so technically, this is 8 more reasons...).
• Finally, This DVD is downright FUN for young, old, and everyone in-between.
The Only Reason We Can Think of NOT to Buy This DVD
You don't have a DVD player, and you don't know anyone on the planet who has a DVD player, and you never plan to ever see a DVD, ever, ever, ever -- for the rest of your life.
ever...
Here are 2 excerpts from this amazing DVD.
Man in the Moon and The Nightingale
