Musician. She first took up the cello at age five, she first played as part of a jazz combo throughout her childhood and teenage years. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1951 with a Bachelor of Music degree. She went on to play with numerous symphony orchestras across the country including both the Chicago and the San Antonio Symphony. According to her interview on an episode of The Lawrence Welk Show, she played for Welk because, at the time, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra did not allow women musicians. In 1956, she appeared in the film Around the World in Eighty Days as a musician. By this time, she had moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked as a session musician and with various bands. It was in early 1961 that she was hired by Lawrence Welk as the orchestra's new cellist where she performed both on his television show, and in their live concerts, whenever they went out on tour and at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday evenings. Throughout her tenure on the show, she was featured many times with pianist Bob Ralston for instrumental numbers and has also performed with the Welk singers in many choral numbers. She left the show in 1978. She lived and taught cello in Palos Verdes in Los Angeles County, California.
Musician. She first took up the cello at age five, she first played as part of a jazz combo throughout her childhood and teenage years. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1951 with a Bachelor of Music degree. She went on to play with numerous symphony orchestras across the country including both the Chicago and the San Antonio Symphony. According to her interview on an episode of The Lawrence Welk Show, she played for Welk because, at the time, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra did not allow women musicians. In 1956, she appeared in the film Around the World in Eighty Days as a musician. By this time, she had moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked as a session musician and with various bands. It was in early 1961 that she was hired by Lawrence Welk as the orchestra's new cellist where she performed both on his television show, and in their live concerts, whenever they went out on tour and at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday evenings. Throughout her tenure on the show, she was featured many times with pianist Bob Ralston for instrumental numbers and has also performed with the Welk singers in many choral numbers. She left the show in 1978. She lived and taught cello in Palos Verdes in Los Angeles County, California.
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