Ora Mendelsohn was my good friend at the High School of Music and Art, which we both attended from 1948 to 1952. The biography reads "She attended public schools" and of course Music and Art (which later merged with the High School of Performing Arts) was a public school, but it was an exceptional school in every way, nurturing the intelligence and academic potential as well as the artistic or musical talent of its young people. Ora, who entered on piano (you had to take and pass a test to be accepted) took up the flute as her second instrument, and learned to play it beautifully.
Her four years at Music and Art were undoubtedly an important time in Ora's life, and I am sure this should be mentioned.
Ora Mendelsohn was my good friend at the High School of Music and Art, which we both attended from 1948 to 1952. The biography reads "She attended public schools" and of course Music and Art (which later merged with the High School of Performing Arts) was a public school, but it was an exceptional school in every way, nurturing the intelligence and academic potential as well as the artistic or musical talent of its young people. Ora, who entered on piano (you had to take and pass a test to be accepted) took up the flute as her second instrument, and learned to play it beautifully.
Her four years at Music and Art were undoubtedly an important time in Ora's life, and I am sure this should be mentioned.
Thank you.
Julie Friedeberger