About Betty Freeman
Betty Freeman was an American philanthropist and photographer. She had originally trained to be a concert pianist, practicing six to eight hours per day for twenty years, but eventually, by the mid-1960s, gave up this dream to pursue concert managing. Betty Freeman (2 June 1921 – 3 January 2009) was an American philanthropist and photographer. Freeman was a graduate of Wellesley College (1942), where she majored in English literature with a minor in music. Freeman was a long-standing supporter of contemporary music, with grants and commissions to various American composers early in their careers.
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