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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Nellie Cornish, Victor E. Neuburg, Peter Kruse, John Rae, Billie Orr, Grace Llewellyn, Michael Vavrus, Edward Thring, Alexander Astin, James R. Goodman, Etienne Wenger, John Robert Blayney Owen, Donald Kirkpatrick, Elisabeth Irwin, Robert Birley, Bonnie Bracey, Lisa Delpit, Michael Sull, Albertine Necker de Saussure, Kevin Ryan, August Dvorak, Harold Marks, Helen Parkhurst, Ali Shariatmadari, William B. Michael, Michael Apple, Andy Hargreaves, Dorothy Goodman, Plamen Radev, Petri Mor, Micheal Flaherty, Abby Barry Bergman, Albert Cullum, Mutsu Hirokichi, Edgar Dale, Philip Evans, Jane Reece, Robert Hebert Quick, Patricia N. Willoughby, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Catherine Baker, Caleb Mills, John Katzman, Alan November, Jean Anyon, Barbara Shearer, Kevin Swick, Gladys Waddingham, Mary D. Bradford, Mary M. Frasier, Mary A. Conlon, R. F. Mackenzie, Rosebud Yellow Robe, Katie McKy, Walter Lowrie Hervey, Harold C. Bradley, William Bell Wait, Hans Brugelmann, Rose Browne, Max Stibbe, Sybil Elgar, Olivia Pound, William O. Stanley, Austin Norman Palmer, Josiah Holbrook, Pierre Jamet, Falko Peschel, Barbara Goleman. Excerpt: Nellie Centennial Cornish (1876 - 1956) was a pianist, teacher, writer, and founder of the Cornish School (now Cornish College of the Arts) in Seattle, Washington. She was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas about teaching broader values through music education. Martha Graham described her as "a small, round, plump little lady with the dynamism of a rocket." She founded the Cornish School in 1914 and served as the school's director for the next 25 years. Within three years it had enrolled over 600 students, and was the country's largest music school west of Chicago. Her middle name reflects the year of her birth, the hundredth anniversary of the foundin...
