PALMER, Lynne Wainwright
(*1918)> HARPIST · LECTURER · COMPOSER
PALMER, Lynne Wainwright American harpist, lecturer and composer. Cleveland, December 6, 1918. She studied the harp under Carlos Salzedo at the Curtis Institute of Music, graduating in 1940 with the Curtis award for the outstanding graduate. She was chosen by Leopold Stokowski for the All-American Youth Orchestra and toured with them in 1940 and 1941. She was first harpist with the Indianapolis and the Philadelphia Orchestras from 1940 to 1942. She was the harp lecturer at the University of…