Performance & Music Therapy
Harp4all Music Company provides harp & voice therapy for Riverside and Moreno Valley Kaiser Permanente hospitals. There is no better feeling than when a patient responds to our music and feels less pain or is encouraged to move to see where the music is coming from says Frederick. What an amazing feeling it is to play harp and comfort new babies just brought into this world and their mothers says Sara. This music therapy has sweep over in their teaching. Please check out the Special Needs Education tab at the top.
Harp4all performs for public and private venues throughout Southern California.
Hire Harp4all for music therapy (in home or at hospital), weddings, baby showers, birthday parties, and other special events.
Music is the universal language to the heart and soul which inspires emotions of happiness, sadness, melancholy, mystery, thrill, excitement, adventure, love, romance, and joy. Think of a movie which moved you, what was the music in that special scene, what did you feel?
Contact Harp4all Music Company today for a free quote and free consultation in Riverside (a $100.00 value).
Enjoy these old songs mastered by sound technician Fred Phillips. The singer is Al Bowlly from the late 1930's & 1940's.
We carry general liability insurance
Collection of our music videos, Enjoy!
Find more videos on Youtube: California Harpist
"Odonta" for flute, viola, and harp by Glenn Llorente
(Contemporary piece performed for Mr. Llorente's Master Composition Recital. Within his pieces, Llorente uses unique spectrum of sounds to tell a story.)
1. Birth of the Dragonfly Nymph
2. Nymph in the Kangkong Marshes
Chelsea Scullion (flute), Miguel Cunanan (viola), Sara Chasse-Phillips (harp), Glenn Llorente (composer/conductor).
Repertoire - music regularly performed for events
Harp and Voice
Irish Favorites:
Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Down By The Sally Gardens, My Wild Irsih Rose, Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms
Scottish Favorites:
Loch Lomond, Annie Laurie
Classic Arias:
Sento Nel Core
Popular Favorites:
Amazing Grace- Early American Melody
Fields of Gold - Sting
Fascination - F. D. Marchetti
Happy Birthday
When You Wish Upon A Star,classic Disney
The Prayer - Sager & Foster
Unforgettable - Irving Gordon
So Deep Is the Night - Chopin
Star Dust - Hoagy Carmichael
Examples: Debussy - Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Examples: Tammy, Theme from Ice Castles
Examples:
Shenandoah, All Through the Night
Examples: Pricess Bride Theme (Storybook Love), Over the Rainbow, Music of the Night
Please contact us for a full listing of our music
Examples: Enya - Watermark, Eleanor Plunkett
According to www.costofwedding.com ,
"You should expect to pay, on average, between $833 and $1,110+ when choosing well-experienced professionals.
Average based on spending of other couples not wedding vendor prices. Spending and prices can vary widely.
Investigate all options and choose products and services that best meet your needs."
http://www.costofwedding.com/index.cfm/action/search.weddingcost/zipcode/92503/cat/5/item/30
Average professional musician(s) rate is $559 for a wedding performance in the United States .
Harp4all gives you quality muscianship worth twice what we charge. We strive for perfection, but don't you deserve that on your wedding day?
All subject to travel fee outside the City of Riverside, California.
Your special event requires special attention; and Harp4all will attend to those musical necessities.
Harp4all offers a variety of options for your particular event.
We specialize in wedding ceremony.
solo piano
piano & singer
piano
solo harp
harp & singer
harp
Silver Ceremony:
Includes voice & lever harp for a 1 hour ceremony. $400.00
Lever Harp alone (live DJ system $100.00 extra)
$300.00
Gold Ceremony:
Includes large pedal harp & voice duo: 1 hour. $500.00
Pedal harp alone (live DJ system $100.00 extra)
$400.00
Solo Musician by the hour (background music):
For showers, cocktail hour, etc. (excludes ceremony) $175.00, 1 hour minimum
Solo Musician by the hour (foreground music):
On stage, when music is the center of attention
$350.00, 1 hour minimum
Music Therapy:
Depends on situation, please contact us directly
(All small venue prices, contact us for a full price quote)
Please inquire via email (harp4all_charter.net) or phone (951-403-4538). Many selections to choose from. Please inquire for music list and a free consultation meeting ($100.00 value).
One- on- One Piano Instruction
Percussion Therapy
The Benefits: Increases fine motor skills, brain development, communication, time management
Caring, Consistent, and Patient Teachers
Specializing in: ADD, Autisim, and Aspergers Syndrome
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Financial Aid is available through the donations that we receive.
Singer and Accompanist
Frederick sings after the style of the greatest tenor, Count John McCormack. Please enjoy my singing of John McCormack songs and as a bonus some originals.
Frederick & Sara have many optional packages with either singer & harp or singer & portable grand piano with many functions. Look under Packages tab.
Please Contact us for a quote:
mobile no. 951-403-4538
email: frederick_harp4all.com
Frederick Phillips is a professional singer, rhythm coach, Brasswinds, orchestra percussion, and beginning fundamentals piano instructor. Frederick is a lover of classical advent and program music with over one million hours of training. Frederick's singing voice is a full-lyric tenor with a deep and warm cello quality.
We understand planning the music for a funeral or memorial service during a trying time can be difficult, we make it easy to book us, even last minute.
Contact Harp4all
mobile: 951.403.4538
e-mail: Sara_harp4all.com
Get a free quote & in-person consultation for your next event by filling out this form:
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Harp4all Music Conservatory: piano, voice, harp, trumpet, flute, guitar
Lessons given in the privacy and convience of your home. Lessons for ages 3 yrs & up. Serving Riverside, Colton, Corona, Norco, Chino and surrounding cities.
Learn from a professional - Take music lessons. If you wish to become a singer or musician, you must learn how to read sheet music in music lessons. Solid music education is immensely helpful in learning to play any instrument. A professional has been trained to the point where it is second nature to read music, and all the various instrumentation markings that are listed in the music (howtodothings.com).
Sources for Parents:
12 Benefits of a Music Education
Where do I buy music books?
Weekly Lessons offered in
30 min. , 45 min. , 1 hr. sessions
Please contact us for rates & availability.
Performing Opportunities:
We offer atleast two annual recitals. Our Summer Recital(s) & Holiday Recital(s). These recitals are at local nursing homes. We think it’s important to share and give back to the community. Each of our students earn a certificate for participating. We also invite our students to perform with us at the Festival of Lights in Downtown Riverside in November or December.
Have Fun With Music Note Trainers:
Speed Note Reading
EMusic Theory
We are located in Riverside and travel throughout Southern California to perform and teach. We have been in business in Riverside since 2005.
Harp4all performs for the public on occasion at the Riverside Plaza, Dos Lagos in Corona, and at the Festival of Lights.
Most of our performances are for private functions: weddings, birthday parties, tea parties, funerals, memorials, bridal showers, baby showers, business dinners, and other intimate gatherings.
We teach private music lessons at the Preserve in Chino, at our home, and in our client's homes.
How We Give Back to the Community:
Performing for the public and retired military
Fundraising for our Finanaical Aid assistance program to offer music lessons to children of military veterans that were combated and those combated parents currently serving in the war that couldn't otherwise afford music lessons. These lessons are offered as a music therapy, a way of coping with their parents being away.
Offering affordable rates to all
Greatest Influences in Music:
Marcel Grandjany,
Keith Lockhart, Skitch Henderson, Enrico Caruso
Favorite Composers:
Marcel Grandjany
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giacomo Puccini
Turlough O'Carolan
Favorite Arrangers for the Harp:
Sylvia Woods
Life a Concert Harpist.docx
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This page is still a work in progress, please bare with us.
Thank you!
Sara provides live therapeutic harp music at Kaiser Riverside & Moreno Valley hospitals. The photo is from ICU at Kaiser Moreno Valley, California.
Space Required for a live lever harpist:
As long as there is a path for a wheelchair, there is plenty of room.
Therapeutic harp music sessions with lever harp:
20 min.- 1 hour $100.00
Additonal time $50.00 /hr.
Travel fees:
We are based in Riverside, CA. We require a modest travel charge outside of the Riverside City limits.
24 Hour Notice Needed to Schedule harp therapist:
With our teaching studios, we require a 24 hour notice during the week and sometimes less during the weekend. Please call for availability.
Live Harp Music
Aragon, D., Farris, C., & Byers, J. (2002). The effects of harp music in vascular and thoracic surgical patients. Alternative Therapies, 8(5), 52-60.
[Orlando Regional Med. Ctr.: A single 20-minute session of live harp music was effective in decreasing pain, anxiety and some physiological variable levels in a group of 17 cardiac and thoracic patients (within 3 days post-op).VAS scores measured pain and anxiety.]
Briggs, T. (2003). Live harp music reduces anxiety of patients hospitalized with cancer. The Harp Therapy Journal, 1, 4, 15.
[United Hospital, St. Paul, MN: Patients who received a 30-minute live harp music session experienced anxiety reduction, and decreased respiratory and heart rates as compared to a control group. Sample: 61 patients with cancer.]
Sand-Jecklin, K. & Emerson, H. (2010). The impact of live therapeutic music intervention on patients' experience of pain, anxiety and muscle tension. Holistic Nursing Practice, 24(1), 7-15.
[W. VA University Hospital, Morgantown, W. VA: A single 20-minute session of live therapeutic harp music significantly reduced pain, anxiety and muscle tension and reduced respiratory rates and systolic blood pressure in a group of 31 patients admitted for emergent illness or injury in the acute care med.-surg. unit. Most patients viewed the therapeutic music experience as impacting their hospitalization positively and stated that the positive effects outlasted the music session. A numeric rating scale was used to measure pain, muscle tension and anxiety. BR, HR and respiratory rates were also measured.]
Williams, S. (2006). Harp beat affects heartbeat. The Harp Therapy Journal, 11(1), 1,12.
[Carle Heart Ctr., Urbana, IL: Live harp music during cardiac electrophysiology studies decreased sinus node rate during music intervention in 14 subjects, who were consciously sedated. Effects lasted at least five minutes after intervention, and ectopy stopped as well. Chief of cardiac electrophysiology, Dr. Abraham Kocheril said “the effects of music were above and beyond any expected changes. The findings support Kocheril’s hypothesis that live harp music decreases sympathetic tone and also suggests that there may be augmented parasympathetic tone.” The study is ongoing.]
Live Harp Music & Animals
Boone, A., & Quelch, V. (2003). Effects of harp music therapy on canine patients in the veterinary hospital setting. The Harp Therapy Journal, 8(2), 1, 4-5,15.
[Three groups of 32 canine patients received 60 minute sessions of harp therapy (Group 1: hospitalized less than 8 hrs.; Group 2: hospitalized longer than 8 hrs.; and Group 3: post-surgical patients). Visual measures of discomfort: restlessness, anxiety and respiration; all decreased during the harp therapy session. The control group displayed no such increase and, in fact, continued to increase in all three measures. The harp therapy group demonstrated a gradual decline in respiration rates over the on-hour in contrast to the control group – which remained unchanged during the same period. Both groups demonstrated a shallow trend in reduction of heart rate.]
Live vs. Recorded Music
Standley, J. (1992). Meta-analysis of research in music and medical treatment. Effect size as a basis for comparison across multiple dependent and independent variables. In R. Spintge & R. Droh (eds.) MusicMedicine. St. Louis, MO: MMB Music, Inc.
[In 1986 Jayne Standley reviewed over 98 empirical studies on the effects of music in medical treatment. 30 of the studies were amenable to a comprehensive meta-analysis of characteristics and results. Despite the small number of live music studies available, the meta-analysis seemed to confirm that live music is more effective than recorded music. (Effect size live = 1.10 (N = 12); recorded 0.86 (N = 117).]
Staneslow, S. (2006). Live music lulls newborns and slows heart rates. The Harp Therapy Journal. Macungie, PA. Vol. 11, No. 1. pp. 14-16.
[Study performed by Dr. Shmuel Arnon, a neonatologist, to determine the impact of live music on newborns at Meir Hospital in the town of Kfar Saba, Israel. The study was designed to test the difference in reaction between live, recorded and no music for healthy, newborn babies and was conducted over a period of several months. The live music intervention had no significant effect on the physiological and behavioral parameters during the 30-minute therapy; however, at the 30-minute interval after the therapy ended, it significantly reduced heart rate, induced a deeper sleep and improved the behavioral score. Recorded music and no-music interventions had no significant effect on any of the tested parameters during all intervals.]
Harp4all musicians strive for perfection, aren't you worth that?
1. The average wedding musician costs $559 in the United States and $4 cheaper in Riverside, California. According to http://www.costofwedding.com/index.cfm/action/search.weddingcost/zipcode/92503/cat/5/item/30
2. Why does a harpist charge different rates for a lever harp compared to an orchestra pedal harp. The answer is simple upkeep, insurance, maintenance; eg did you know that a harp goes through strings every 3 - 6 months retail for one octave roughly $43.00 - $135 for each octave set. http://www.vanderbiltmusic.com/strings.php
The harp strings make a huge difference in the sound of the harp, if their new and well taken care the harp will sing most beautifully even with bad or improper performance, but if old and uncared for the harp will sound very poor. Now, one could argue that the clien's ears are not tuned well enough to know how music should sound on a good harp, very true, but in the back of their mind something will not be right.
Besides harp strings, a harp needs regualtion, like a oil change for a car. Which is as costly as getting your new Mercedes an oil change.
3.So, why do some musicians charge more and others less, well there are certain varibles involved. Some wedding harpists have very little or no background in formal training in music, and typically play the instrument as they taught themselves to play. Also, many professional musicians that gig weddings do not have music theory, meaning they do not know how to read sheet music and have no training with rhythm. Now of course there are those with little background in formal lessons that actually have a natural gift with music, but if one was to get to know that person, they would find a logical reason why they perform so well without formal training.
4. What is involved for a musician to prepare for a wedding? Answer is the same as getting ready for any live performance, a lot of practicing with even more practicing. Roughly 3-8 hours of practicing a day for at least a month before the wedding, and of course a serious classical music much more time is needed to prepare.
5. Why don't you just prepare the week before and then just put out that music? Answer, yes some musicians do this on a regular basis and in reality the music is not perfect. However, on your wedding day, don't you want a musician that takes your wedding music serious by making it perfect?
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