Who is in this picture????

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September 2, 2020 at 7:34 pm #252429

carl-swanson
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Someone recently sent me this photograph and asked if I could identify one of the people in it. There are actually 2 people in this photo that I don’t recognize. For context: The photo was taken at the Denver AHS Conference in 1988, and Carol Mclaughlin was the opening night soloist. She’s standing in the center of this line. All of the other women in this picture are harpists that had performed at past AHS harp conferences. Starting on the left, the first harpist is Katherine Gotthoffer. I don’t know who the second person is.The third is Phia Berghout, then Carol. The person to the right of Carol is the main mystery woman. I have no idea who that is. Next to her is, I believe, Phyllis Scholmovitz, then Lynn Palmer, then all the way to the right, Ann Mason Stockton.

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September 7, 2020 at 8:00 pm #252473

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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Gayle Levant?

September 12, 2020 at 4:00 pm #252504

carl-swanson
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Hi Saul- Turns out that is not Gayle Levant. So I’m still trying to find out who it is. Had to be a pretty good professional harpist.

April 6, 2021 at 7:56 pm #255794

Alison
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Could the player 2 to the right of Carol in the picture be Heidi Lehwalder, whom you haven’t mentioned at all & not Phyllis Scholmovitz who would have been a little older ?

April 6, 2021 at 11:22 pm #255796

carl-swanson
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No, that’s not Heidi. I’m sure that that person (white dress) to the right of Carol is Phyllis. I’m still stumped on the two mystery women that I mentioned in the first post above.

April 7, 2021 at 10:29 am #255803

catherine-rogers
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The lady second from left in the bright floral gown is Julia Herrmann Edwards.

April 7, 2021 at 12:59 pm #255808

carl-swanson
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Thank you Catherine. I know the name, but had never seen a picture of her. Was she an orchestra harpist? What did she do?

January 7, 2022 at 9:14 am #281644

eva-murphy
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The lady in the bright green floral dress second from left is indeed Julia Hermann Edwards. Most of her professional career she was known as Julia Hermann. She served as Principal Harpist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for 24 years, retiring from the Symphony in 1977. She grew up in Oklahoma and earned her undergrad degrees in piano and harp there. She studied harp also under Madame Ludwig in Chicago. Julia Hermann then studied under Grandjany at Juilliard for several years, and earned both levels of performance certificates there (comparable to undergrad and grad degrees). Julia taught for decades at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her many former students who became successful harpists are a credit to her fine teaching. Her most prominent former student: Emily Mitchell, winner of the Israel Contest around 1979 (after Emily continued her studies under Eileen Malone and Marisa Robles).
Julia (along with Grandjany) founded the Dallas, Texas Chapter of AHS in 1963, and she served multiple terms as chapter president. She performed for multiple summers at Chautauqua. Julia Herrmann Edwards performed solo at AHS National conferences. She married Roy “Jack” Edwards,Lt.Col., Ret. late in life, upon her retirement from the Dallas Symphony (interestingly, Jack Edwards had been her high school sweetheart).
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