No mourners at Juilliard teacher’s funeral

No mourners at Juilliard teacher’s funeral

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norman lebrecht

August 20, 2016

A call went out on Facebook for volunteers to attend the funeral of a woman who died, aged 83, in a New York home, leaving no family or friends.

Some thirty people responded.

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The rabbi said at the funeral that he had just discovered that Frances Stein used to teach piano at the Juilliard School.

Remember her?

 

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