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Article: Controversy and conflict in the Henry Street settlement music school, 1927-1935.
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- Women & Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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IN 1971 HELEN HALL (1892-1982), THE president of the National Federation of Settlements, published Unfinished Business in Neighborhood and Nation, memoirs of her tenure as Henry Street Settlement's second director. (1) The book relates many of the activities that rook place at the settlement house, including those of its music school. Hall also describes with fondness many of Henry Street's staff members, including Grace Spofford, the second director of the settlement's music school. Curiously, Hall's book fails to make any mention of Hedi Katz, the music school's founder and first director, even though their terms at Henry Street overlapped by at least six months and ...