Lily Laskine Research Paper

As Lily Laskine used to say “all one needs to play the harp is good fingers and a sacrificed childhood.” For her these words were true, practicing six hours each day from a young age. Her father was a music lover and her mother a pianist, which she gave up to be more focused on her children. Starting from a very young age Lily was very dedicated with her mother to guide her. She won many competitions, she taught the harp, toured, and added many great things to the harp community then and now.

As a child Lily longed to go to school and play outside with the other children. Instead she was practicing the way her mother wanted her to, sitting at the harp hour after hour. During her warm ups and scales she would have a book on her stand hidden …show more content…
When she was just sixteen years old she became the first lady to be admitted to Orchestre de l’ópera. She was committed to the Orchestre Lamoureux for thirty-seven years. Lily contributed many film scores as well as earning the Grand Prix du Film Musical for her work on La Leçon de Musique score in 1979. Lily recorded until quite late in her life and is known for some of her famous recordings including ones with Jean-Pierre Rampal. As well as inspiring many composers who wrote for her. There were multiple concertos written for her and in honor of her

Lily Laskine uncovered unknown works for the harp that are still used today such as Grossec’s Symphonie concertante for two harps. Lily recorded a lot with singers and other instruments. She did not only play classically, she liked to explore with different genres on the harp. Even now her recordings are famous. She interpreted a lot of the pieces to make them her own giving flexible phrasing and emotion.
On her 100th birthday her friends created a competition after her named the Lily Laskine International harp competition, that is still going on presently. They created it to try to pursue what Lily would have wanted; to help the young