Stevens, Georgia Lydia (1870–1946)
Stevens, Georgia Lydia (1870–1946)
American music teacher and nun. Born May 8, 1870, in Boston, MA; died Mar 28, 1946, in New York, NY; dau. of Henry James Stevens (lawyer) and Helen (Granger) Stevens; began training as violinist at Hoch Conservatorium in Germany, 1888.
Converted to Roman Catholicism (1894); entered Society of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood in Albany, NY (1906); took teaching post at Sacred Heart's Manhattanville school in New York (1914); founded and was active teacher at Chair of Liturgical Music, later known as Pius X Institute and Pius X School of Liturgical Music of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (1916); started publishing "Tone and Rhythm" series (1932). Her school was instrumental in spurring interest in Gregorian chant.
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