JOLAS, Betsy

JOLAS, Betsy Frenchorganist, pianist, editor, singer and composer of American parentage. Paris, August 5, 1926. She spent her childhood in the United States and France, returning to the United States in 1940. She obtained her B.A. from Bennington College in 1946, where she studied composition and theory under Paul Boepple, the organ under Carl Weinrich and the piano under Schnabel. She sang with and accompanied the Dessoff Choir while she was in New York in the 1940s. In 1946 she went to Paris…