Daphne Hellman
Daphne Hellman (* 2. December 1915 in New York City as Daphne Van Beuren Bayne , † 4. August 2002 ibid) was an American jazz - and easy listening -Harfenistin and philanthropist .
Live and act
Hellman, who was a member of a wealthy banking family, began learning the concert harp when he was twelve . In the next few years she was involved in acting and was a model, u. a. for Man Ray , before marrying Harry Bull, editor of Town and Country Magazine .
Immediately after the divorce in 1941, she married the journalist Geoffrey Hellman, who wrote for the New Yorker ; shortly afterwards she gave her first concert - at Carnegie Hall . She then played regularly in the city's night and jazz clubs. Among other things, she worked with Blossom Dearie and with Ving Merlin and his all-girl band. In 1958 she presented her debut album with Mitch Miller . In The Village Gate , she joined when she was in New York for 28 years every Tuesday evening with her trio Hellman's Angels to the long years bassist Lyn Christie belonged to. She played an eclectic mix from Bach to Brubeck to the Beatles . In addition, she was also active as a street musician and gave concerts in the city's hospitals for “Hospital Audiences, Inc.”, to which she also donated generously from her own assets. In addition, she made regular tours through the United States, but also through parts of Asia and Australia, but also through Madagascar. She also performed in Paris in 1984 .
In 1989/1990 she conducted harp workshops at the University of Arizona .
The guitarist Sandy Bull and the sitar player Daisy Paradis are their children.
Discographic notes
- Holiday for Harp
Lexigraphic entries
- Whitney Ballet : New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits University Press of Mississippi 2006; ISBN 978-1578068364
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- Obituary in the New York Times
- Obituary of the Hospital Audiences Inc
- Short biography (Space Age Musicmaker)
Remarks
- ↑ It is said that Billie Holiday once refused to share the wardrobe with her.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellman, Daphne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Beuren Bayne, Daphne; Bull, Daphne; Shih, Daphne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz harpist and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 4, 2002 |
| Place of death | New York City |