Album Notes

Sydney Howell has been free lancing and teaching harp in the DFW metroplex for 30 years. She has degrees from the University of North Texas and The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She taught for many years at Texas Christian Universtiy in Ft. Worth, TX. She played with many orchestras in the Boston area and more recently in Texas. She especially loves playing love songs with her husband of 10 years.

Cliff notes from the CD: "My romance with the harp began many years ago, and I'm more in love than ever. My new romance is my husband Dan who joins me on three of the love songs. We met in 1992, and very soon after we realized we had found our soul mates. As a pilot Dan has had his wings for a long time. He says he has finally found his angel. Well, this angel has at last found her wings! Our love is the inspiration for this project. Dan insisted I produce this album and I said, 'Fine, we'll do it together!'

"The selections on the recording are favorites of ours and our friends. some have very special significance, such as UNCHAINED MELODY, which Dan sang to me at our wedding. CLAIRE DE LUNE is his absolute favorite piece of music. With apologies to Debussy, we like it better on the harp than on the piano for which it was written. GREENSLEEVES has been my theme song for as long as I have been playing harp, so I wrote a new arrangement in honor of this project. We hope that the beautiful music of love will renew your romance or give you faith to find your soul mate somewhere out there..."