Letter from Suzanne Bloch to Isaac Stern

Suzanne Bloch was a daughter of Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch. She was born in Switzerland, in 1907, and moved to New York with her family, in 1917, when her father was appointed teacher of composition at the Mannes School of Music. In 1925, he was appointed head of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Suzanne became a leader in the revival of Early Music, taught at The Juilliard School and was a founder of the Lute Society of America. She died in New York, in 2002, at the age of 95.