Hearings conducted, established that Metropolitan Music School, Inc. is controlled by identified Communists.

Focuses on communist influence in the New York musicians field. Hearings were held in NYC.

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Excerpt from Investigation of Communism in the Metropolitan Music School, Inc;, And Related Fields Part 1: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session, April 9 and 10, 1957 Further indication of the Communist nature Of the Metropolitan Music School is the fact it frequently advertises in the Communist Daily Worker. An insight into the school's Operation was provided by Leonard Cherlin, a musician and teacher. He told the committee he was a Communist Party member from 1940 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1948, when he dropped out. Cherlin was on the faculty of the Metro politan Music School from 1946 to 1953. He attended closed party meetings, he said, some of them at the homes of Lilly Popper, the director, and Thelma Pyle, a member of the board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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