![]() In 1954-55, she played violin for Peruvian-American soprano Yma Sumac. Rivera suggested that she develop her own system of hieroglyphic musical notation for working with pre-Columbian instruments, in order to teach others how to play them. ![]() She also struck up a friendship with muralist Diego Rivera, with whom she shared an interest in pre-Columbian and Maya music. While living there, she collaborated frequently with singer Agustín Lara and appeared in the 1945 film Song of Mexico as a violinist this film appearance marks Waldo as one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She returned to Latin America as a touring solo performer, playing in Panamá, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico before taking up residence in Mexico City, where she was a regular on the newly networked national radio. Īfter the All-American Youth Orchestra, Waldo made her home in Southern California, where she played as a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for one season. It was on these tours that Waldo's interest in musical archeology grew and she began collecting pre-Columbian instruments. They toured South America in 1940 and then North America in 1941 before disbanding when the U.S. In 1940, conductor Leopold Stokowski invited Waldo to join the newly formed All-American Youth Orchestra. Russian-born violinist Jascha Heifetz heard her play and helped her attain a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she received her musical education. ![]() She started singing at age three and took up violin by age five. Waldo grew up on her family's ranch at the edge of the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington state. Waldo and her husband shared a love of Asian and Native American culture and artifacts, and he served as director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. Dentzel, co-founder of the park system for Beverly Hills. Dentzel, a councilman and mayor of Beverly Hills, and Mrs. She married Carl Schaefer Dentzel, son of Edward P. She and her younger sister, actress Janet Waldo, were raised in Yakima. Biography Family Įlisabeth Ann Waldo was born in Tacoma, Washington to Jane Althea Blodgett, a singer trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and Benjamin Franklin Waldo, a descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Elisabeth Ann Dentzel ( née Waldo is an American former violinist, composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
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