Harpist Alice Chalifoux, ca. 1950.

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Harpist Alice Chalifoux, ca. 1950.

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Photograph (b/w) of Alice Chalifoux in formal dress playing the harp. Chalifoux was the protegee of Carlos Salzedo, founder of the Camden Summer Harp Colony of America.

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Camden Public Library

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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...