Louise Elian was born June 3, 1906, in Buchanan, Missouri to Edward Klos and Mary Francis Seick. Louise married famous film music composer Max Steiner in 1936, and they had one son, Ronald, who died at age 22. Max and Louise divorced after ten years of marriage, and Louise eventually remarried to floral designer Frederick Elian.

Louise was a well-known harpist, featured in original film music scores of "Gone With the Wind" and "Casablanca." She played harp in symphonies into her 80s. Louise died in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 7, 2002.

Janet B. Bradford was born May 19, 1956, in Montpelier, Idaho. She received an associate degree in piano pedagogy from Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho in 1976. In 1978, she received a B.A. in music theory from Brigham Young University. She also attended graduate classes in musicology from 1980 to 1985. Janet received a master's in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 1986. She began working for the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee library in 1984. She worked as a catalog librarian for music and dance, as the curator of Latter-day Saints popular music, and as an interim Associate University Librarian for Metadata and Information Technology from 2020 to 2022. Janet presented a devotional to the BYU campus in 2011, titled, "Carry On." Janet was active in the Music Library Association, Utah Library Association, and a co-writer of an article on film composer Max Steiner published in Oxford Music Online. Janet retired from the BYU library in 2022.

Janet was a member of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square from 2009 to 2017. As of 2018, she is a member of the Utah Baroque Ensemble, a local community choir in Utah Valley.