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  • October 28, 2011 at 8:24 pm #104966
    tony-morosco
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    Does anyone know who is actually playing the harp for Dorothy Collins in this clip?

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSJfFOt4gksQ&v=SJfFOt4gksQ&gl=US

    October 28, 2011 at 8:53 pm #104967
    Sid Humphreys
    Member

    Tony,

    the video is not comming up with that link…

    October 28, 2011 at 10:15 pm #104968
    john-strand
    Participant

    If you are talking about the “Secret Love” clip from the old hit parade show of 1954, a note with it says that it is probably Ruth Berman – here’s a link to the clip

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJfFOt4gksQ

    October 28, 2011 at 10:35 pm #104969
    sherry-lenox
    Participant

    That looks like a rather masculine hand doesn’t it?

    Giselle MacKenzie was a pretty accomplished violinist, but I never heard of Dorothy Collins playing the harp.

    October 29, 2011 at 12:07 am #104970
    tony-morosco
    Member

    I’m 90% sure it isn’t Ruth. Ruth is very small, with small hands. Those hands look much bigger than Ruth to me.

    October 29, 2011 at 1:00 am #104971
    catherine-rogers
    Member

    Did you notice she’s sitting on the wrong side of the harp? Maybe that’s the angle the director wanted to shoot from regardless of accuracy.

    October 29, 2011 at 1:54 am #104972
    tony-morosco
    Member

    And her hand position would only come close to something correct if she had been playing on a wire strung Celtic harp. Thumbs completely down and fingers like claws. She did move in time with the music, but what she was doing would not have produced those notes. At one point she was plaing a gliss, but the harp was playing an arpeggio run.

    October 29, 2011 at 6:12 pm #104973
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
    Participant

    It’s obviously an actress faking it. I don’t know who the real harpist is. Many students of Salzedo’s and Grandjany’s were active in those days. Pearl Chertok played for the CBS orchestra, as I recall, and Lucile Lawrence did ABC, I think, as well as the Firestone show. It was lucrative work.

    October 30, 2011 at 1:10 am #104974
    tony-morosco
    Member

    Indeed. Ruth Played for the ABC, NBC and CBS orchestras at various times. Nice work if you could get it.

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