CD: Reflections in Glass Brief History of the Glass Armonica Performance Highlights Hear the Glass Armonica Contact “one truly poignant performance…”, —Hartford Courant		Alisa Nakashian-Holsberg discovered her love for music when she was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in grade school. She is a graduate of Bentley College and studied music theory with the late composer/conductor Rouben Gregorian. In 1984, Alisa was introduced to Benjamin Franklin’s invention, the glass armonica, by scientific glass blower Gerhard Finkenbeiner of Waltham, MA. Captivated by this unique instrument, Alisa researched its history, and personally tuned and assembled her own instrument. She is the first 20th-century performer to combine her vocal talents with Franklin's armonica, and has been delighting audiences all over New England.
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The inscription "Man is carried to heaven on the wings of music" titles the door to the music room at Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire, which from 1919 onwards was the home of the architect, poet, and artist Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956). The home and Wade's art collections are now held by the British National Trust.
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