Released by Lyon & Healy Harps
At the showroom of Lyon & Healy Harps in Chicago, Lyon & Healy staff join Susann McDonald in front of IU’s new concert grand harps. Pictured from left are Steve Fritzmann and María Luisa Rayan, Lyon & Healy; McDonald, and Lillian Lau, Lyon & Healy. |
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Chicago, IL -- September 6, 2005 -- With great pleasure, Indiana University School of Music Distinguished Professor of Harp Susann McDonald recently visited the Lyon & Healy Harps factory in Chicago to personally select two new Lyon & Healy Style 23 Concert Grand harps, as well as two Salvi Concert Grand harps to be added to the university’s inventory. The School of Music was able to make such an impressive investment by arranging to trade in some of its older instruments for newer models.
“ Indiana University has the largest harp department in the world and we are so pleased that they strive to provide their students with the best instruments to study music,” said Antonio Forero, President & CEO of Lyon & Healy. Notes McDonald, “It is imperative that we have the finest harps for our students to practice and perform on - Lyon & Healy and Salvi harps are recognized for their superb craftsmanship and sound.” Next year, the university will receive ano ther four new Lyon & Healy harps under a similar arrangement.
Founded in 1864 in Chicago, Lyon & Healy Harps built its first pedal harp in 1889. With more than a century of experience and twenty-seven current styles, Lyon & Healy Harps remains one of the most respected instrument-makers in the world. The unparalleled Lyon & Healy sound is marked by its resonance, its clarity, its carrying ability and most importantly, its consistency. It is the instrument of choice in orchestras and symphonies all over the world.
Lyon & Healy provides a commemorative gold harp to the first prize winner of the U.S.A. International Harp Competition, hosted by the IU School of Music, which McDonald founded and is its music director. The Victor Salvi Foundation, a non-profit organization supported by Lyon & Healy, Salvi Harps and Bow Brand Strings, provides the first prize winner debut recitals in London and New York, concert engagements and a CD recording.
For more information, please visit www.lyonhealy.com, www.salviharps.com or www.victorsalvifoundation.com.
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