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Maryanne
Miller learned to play the Celtic harp, while living and studying in
Ireland
. “It’s all about bringing ancient music alive, and touching many
people, in many different ways,” she says. Her thirty year music
career has brought her many opportunities to do just that.
Maryanne has performed Celtic music at corporate lunches and
dinners, and at establishments such as The Delafield Motel, Westmore
Country Club, University Club, and the Milwaukee Athletic Club.
She has performed for famous folks like Steve Allen, Jerry
Mathers (the “Beav”), James Doohan (Beam me up “Scotty”), and
Donny Osmond.
“Everywhere I play, I hear people say how soothing and
relaxing the music is, and how they could listen to it all day.”
Maryanne has soothed scores of people at hospices, nursing
homes, and maybe most importantly, at St. Luke’s Hospital in
Milwaukee
.
Her first invitation to play at St. Luke’s came during a
difficult time in her life. Her
husband, Richard, was spending a lengthy and difficult stint in the
intensive care unit there, after an emergency five bypass surgery. His
pulmonary doctor urged Maryanne to bring her harp and to play her heart
out. Richard remembers hearing her music as he began emerging from his
coma.
Maryanne’s loving performance brought her husband back to her.
Others, in the ICU, benefited as well, and Maryanne continues to play
her soothing harp strings at the hospital, and for other St. Luke’s
functions. She envisions other
Milwaukee
hospitals opening up to the idea of integrating music therapy into
their own healing programs.
Maryanne has brought nursing home patients to tears, so moved
were they by her music. Touching people emotionally, and bringing some
peace to their lives has become an important theme of Maryanne’s
life.
Maryanne is available for Celtic harp performances (she includes
some of her own songs) for almost any occasion. She extends the
invitation to include functions involving animals. Their high
sensitivity makes them perfect receptors for the calming effects of
beautiful music.
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