Natalie Palme was born on July 24, 1931 the third and youngest child of Otto Palme and Eleanora Wallner Palme. Natalie grew up at the Palme family home at 345 Pleasant St., Rumford, RI.
Natalie’s true passion was playing music. She had said that in her teens, while all of her friends were buying cars, she saved up and bought a piano. She played piano and various stringed instruments like the dulcimer, psaltery, lute and viol, but her favorite instrument was the recorder.
After graduating from East Providence High School, Nat attended Pembroke College/Brown University from September 1949 to June 1953. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Music on June 1, 1953. She received her M.S. degree from the School of Library and Information Sciences at Simmons College in Boston in 1957.
Natalie was the music reference librarian at Providence Public Library in the 1950’s, and after that was librarian of the Music Department at Boston Public Library for many years. She left her career at BPL to become librarian at The Harvard Musical Association in Boston, where she worked until she retired in 2010.
Natalie studied recorder with Elna Sherman, and later attended master classes with Carl Dolmetsch. She had also studied flute with Sharon Zuckerman, viol with Adrienne Hartzell, and voice with Betsy Warren-Davis (Boston) and Alma Caesari (London). She specialized in early music, both instrumental and vocal.
Natalie performed extensively in the New England area, both as soloist and as a member of the Boston Recorder Consort, the Cambridge Musica Antiqua, Kenmore Consort, The Early Music Duo, and in the San Diego area (1975-1976) as a member of the Guidonian Hand. Appearances in the Boston area included concerts at the Gardner Museum, the Blacksmith House (Cambridge), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Hammond Castle Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Art Complex in Duxbury and King Richard's Renaissance Faire.
During the 1960's, Natalie served on the Boston Recorder Society Board and also as Boston Recorder Society Music Director. In 1972 she was involved with the New England Music Library Association during its formation. She served as director of the 1514 Consort, and organized La Fontegara in 1976.
In 1968 Natalie was married to Alex Spotswood Breed. Nat and Alex parted ways after about a year, but remained good friends always after.
Throughout her youth, the family enjoyed outings to various beaches in RI and on the Cape, including Point Judith and Sand Hill Cove in Narragansett. As she requested, her ashes were scattered on Sand Hill Cove Beach at a memorial service attended by her brother Robert and his children and grandchildren.
Natalie’s true passion was playing music. She had said that in her teens, while all of her friends were buying cars, she saved up and bought a piano. She played piano and various stringed instruments like the dulcimer, psaltery, lute and viol, but her favorite instrument was the recorder.
After graduating from East Providence High School, Nat attended Pembroke College/Brown University from September 1949 to June 1953. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Music on June 1, 1953. She received her M.S. degree from the School of Library and Information Sciences at Simmons College in Boston in 1957.
Natalie was the music reference librarian at Providence Public Library in the 1950’s, and after that was librarian of the Music Department at Boston Public Library for many years. She left her career at BPL to become librarian at The Harvard Musical Association in Boston, where she worked until she retired in 2010.
Natalie studied recorder with Elna Sherman, and later attended master classes with Carl Dolmetsch. She had also studied flute with Sharon Zuckerman, viol with Adrienne Hartzell, and voice with Betsy Warren-Davis (Boston) and Alma Caesari (London). She specialized in early music, both instrumental and vocal.
Natalie performed extensively in the New England area, both as soloist and as a member of the Boston Recorder Consort, the Cambridge Musica Antiqua, Kenmore Consort, The Early Music Duo, and in the San Diego area (1975-1976) as a member of the Guidonian Hand. Appearances in the Boston area included concerts at the Gardner Museum, the Blacksmith House (Cambridge), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Hammond Castle Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Art Complex in Duxbury and King Richard's Renaissance Faire.
During the 1960's, Natalie served on the Boston Recorder Society Board and also as Boston Recorder Society Music Director. In 1972 she was involved with the New England Music Library Association during its formation. She served as director of the 1514 Consort, and organized La Fontegara in 1976.
In 1968 Natalie was married to Alex Spotswood Breed. Nat and Alex parted ways after about a year, but remained good friends always after.
Throughout her youth, the family enjoyed outings to various beaches in RI and on the Cape, including Point Judith and Sand Hill Cove in Narragansett. As she requested, her ashes were scattered on Sand Hill Cove Beach at a memorial service attended by her brother Robert and his children and grandchildren.
Natalie Palme was born on July 24, 1931 the third and youngest child of Otto Palme and Eleanora Wallner Palme. Natalie grew up at the Palme family home at 345 Pleasant St., Rumford, RI.
Natalie’s true passion was playing music. She had said that in her teens, while all of her friends were buying cars, she saved up and bought a piano. She played piano and various stringed instruments like the dulcimer, psaltery, lute and viol, but her favorite instrument was the recorder.
After graduating from East Providence High School, Nat attended Pembroke College/Brown University from September 1949 to June 1953. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Music on June 1, 1953. She received her M.S. degree from the School of Library and Information Sciences at Simmons College in Boston in 1957.
Natalie was the music reference librarian at Providence Public Library in the 1950’s, and after that was librarian of the Music Department at Boston Public Library for many years. She left her career at BPL to become librarian at The Harvard Musical Association in Boston, where she worked until she retired in 2010.
Natalie studied recorder with Elna Sherman, and later attended master classes with Carl Dolmetsch. She had also studied flute with Sharon Zuckerman, viol with Adrienne Hartzell, and voice with Betsy Warren-Davis (Boston) and Alma Caesari (London). She specialized in early music, both instrumental and vocal.
Natalie performed extensively in the New England area, both as soloist and as a member of the Boston Recorder Consort, the Cambridge Musica Antiqua, Kenmore Consort, The Early Music Duo, and in the San Diego area (1975-1976) as a member of the Guidonian Hand. Appearances in the Boston area included concerts at the Gardner Museum, the Blacksmith House (Cambridge), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Hammond Castle Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Art Complex in Duxbury and King Richard's Renaissance Faire.
During the 1960's, Natalie served on the Boston Recorder Society Board and also as Boston Recorder Society Music Director. In 1972 she was involved with the New England Music Library Association during its formation. She served as director of the 1514 Consort, and organized La Fontegara in 1976.
In 1968 Natalie was married to Alex Spotswood Breed. Nat and Alex parted ways after about a year, but remained good friends always after.
Throughout her youth, the family enjoyed outings to various beaches in RI and on the Cape, including Point Judith and Sand Hill Cove in Narragansett. As she requested, her ashes were scattered on Sand Hill Cove Beach at a memorial service attended by her brother Robert and his children and grandchildren.
Natalie’s true passion was playing music. She had said that in her teens, while all of her friends were buying cars, she saved up and bought a piano. She played piano and various stringed instruments like the dulcimer, psaltery, lute and viol, but her favorite instrument was the recorder.
After graduating from East Providence High School, Nat attended Pembroke College/Brown University from September 1949 to June 1953. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Music on June 1, 1953. She received her M.S. degree from the School of Library and Information Sciences at Simmons College in Boston in 1957.
Natalie was the music reference librarian at Providence Public Library in the 1950’s, and after that was librarian of the Music Department at Boston Public Library for many years. She left her career at BPL to become librarian at The Harvard Musical Association in Boston, where she worked until she retired in 2010.
Natalie studied recorder with Elna Sherman, and later attended master classes with Carl Dolmetsch. She had also studied flute with Sharon Zuckerman, viol with Adrienne Hartzell, and voice with Betsy Warren-Davis (Boston) and Alma Caesari (London). She specialized in early music, both instrumental and vocal.
Natalie performed extensively in the New England area, both as soloist and as a member of the Boston Recorder Consort, the Cambridge Musica Antiqua, Kenmore Consort, The Early Music Duo, and in the San Diego area (1975-1976) as a member of the Guidonian Hand. Appearances in the Boston area included concerts at the Gardner Museum, the Blacksmith House (Cambridge), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Hammond Castle Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Art Complex in Duxbury and King Richard's Renaissance Faire.
During the 1960's, Natalie served on the Boston Recorder Society Board and also as Boston Recorder Society Music Director. In 1972 she was involved with the New England Music Library Association during its formation. She served as director of the 1514 Consort, and organized La Fontegara in 1976.
In 1968 Natalie was married to Alex Spotswood Breed. Nat and Alex parted ways after about a year, but remained good friends always after.
Throughout her youth, the family enjoyed outings to various beaches in RI and on the Cape, including Point Judith and Sand Hill Cove in Narragansett. As she requested, her ashes were scattered on Sand Hill Cove Beach at a memorial service attended by her brother Robert and his children and grandchildren.
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