Lucile Lawrence

At the end of her life, she was a faculty member of Boston University and the Manhattan School of Music, as well as teaching privately.

A prodigious student, she was introduced to French harpist Carlos Salzedo in New Orleans while he was performing on tour with his Trio de Lutece.

Her advanced studies were conducted privately, with music history and theory lessons taken with the composer Edgard Varèse.

While married to Salzedo, they made a summer trip to Europe to fulfill concert engagements and met composer Maurice Ravel.

However, instead the next year, they purchased a house in Camden, Maine, and launched the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony, which continued into the late 1990s.

Over the years, she taught such harpists as Cynthia Otis (formerly New York City Ballet Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra), Beatrice Schroeder Rose (formerly Houston Symphony, faculties of Rice University, U. of Houston), Maria Pinckney (formerly St. Louis Symphony), Grace Wong (Israel contest prize-winner, Rochester Symphony) and Sara Cutler (soloist, now NYC Ballet).

She worked with many composers, including John Lessard, Rudolf Forst, Quinto Maganini, Charles Fox, George Perle, and Ami Maayani.