Word: sendler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Casadesus, an able concert artist, was touring the U. S. at the behest of the French Government when Beatrice Sendler, president of the Fontainebleau alumni association, thought of forming a Fontainebleau piano class. A friend, John Frothingham, persuaded his old school, St. George's in Newport, to lend its buildings. For piano classes with M. and Mme Casadesus, and French diction under Mme Marthe Pillois (widow of a minor French composer), the transplanted Fontainebleau conservatory signed up 25 students, most of them Fontainebleau alumni. Two talented newcomers were Dominican nuns, Sister Ignatia and Sister M. Louisita...
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