Annie Louise David

David was a concert harpist, "the complete mistress of her intricate instrument".^[5] She was based in New York,^[6][7] then in the San Francisco Bay area from the 1920s.^[4][8] She toured with Alma Gluck, Sarah Bernhardt, Maggie Teyte, Olive Fremstad, and other singers.^[9] She played a custom lavender-and-gold harp, and was sometimes promoted as the "Lavender Lady"^[10] or "The Lady in Lavender".^[4] A 1921 reviewer said that "There is about Miss David's playing a certain refinement and elegance which is truly admirable" and "she was honored with the heartiest and warmest kind of reception".^[11]

David was a founding member of the National Association of Harpists, and of the Northern California chapter of the association.^[12] She compiled and edited a collection of harp scores, Album of Solo Pieces for the Harp (1916), with works by Beethoven, Hasselmans, Fauré, Donizetti, Sinding, and others.^[13] Margaret Hoberg Turrell composed her Concerto in B flat minor for David,^[9] and Andre Kostelanetz wrote "Lake Louise" for her.^[4]

David also taught harp students,^[14] including Anne Everingham Adams, principal harpist for the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera.^[15][16] She taught a master class in harp instruction at the Cornish School in Seattle in 1922.^[17][18]

Berry married her manager, Walter C. David, in 1905;^[19] they divorced in the 1910s. She died in 1960, in San Francisco, aged 82 years.^[1]