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My Grandmother and Mendelssohn

May 30, 2018 by Tom Clark 2 Comments

Charlotte Demuth Williams, playing the violin at age 17

In 1897, my grandmother, Charlotte Demuth Williams, a seventeen-year-old young woman from a small town in Ohio, who had not begun her study of violin until she was twelve, was given the singular honor of playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the 50th anniversary celebration of the composer’s death.

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