Ellis Schuman papers 1969-2006

Salvi, Alberto

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Dilling, Mildred

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Mildred Dilling (1894-1982) was a prominent harpist who studied under Henriette Renié. She collected various instruments and by the end of her life had obtained over 120. Mildred Dilling was born on February 23, 1894, in Marion, Indiana. From a young age, Mildred knew she wanted to play the harp. Unfortunately for her, there was no harp teacher in Marion. So at age six, she began to take piano lessons at the Marion Conservatory of Music. When she was eleven, her family m...

Schuman, Ellis, 1931-

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Ellis Schuman (born 1931) is a performing artist, composer, and teacher. Schuman was born in Chicago in 1931 and studied with prominent instructors such as Rudolph Ganz, Karel Boreslav Jirak, Mildred Dilling, Marie Ludwig Giordano, and Hans Tischler. He performed on piano and harp with Chicago's Musica Viva Quintet, and toured with the Baroque Repertory Ensemble as harpsichordist. From 1969 to 1977 Schuman was president of the Chicago chapter of the American ...

Chalifoux, Alice

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Alice Chalifoux (1908-2008) was an influential harpist who studied under Carlos Salzedo and later ran his harp school in Camden, Maine. Alice Chalifoux was born in 1908 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her mother, Alice Hallé Chalifoux, was a harpist and taught her from a young age. Alice continued to study the harp through local schools and then went on to study under Carlos Salzedo at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A few years after Salzedo began t...

Ludwig-Giordano, Marie, 1887-1980

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