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Upon their retirements between the 2024/25 and 2025/26 season, harpist Turner and principal trombonist Jay Friedman will be the longest-serving CSO musicians in history.

Chicago Tribune

Lynne Turner, CSO harpist since 1962, retires from the orchestra

You could say Lynne Turner’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra career really began in 1956. That year, she made her debut with the orchestra, the winner of an audition call to headline its Young People’s Concerts. Turner, then 14, played Handel’s Harp Concerto in B-flat in four concerts that March.

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