Join my family and me in celebrating what would have been my mother’s centennial birthday, November 1, 2023, with this family keepsake, "Muriel, This Is For You From Your Big Sister Marjorie." A present from me to you.
My mom, Muriel Landsmark Adams-Tuitt, was a master educator and founding Executive Director of the nation’s first educational park—a partnership of Harvard University School of Education and the New York City Board of Education located at Co-Op City in The Bronx. In 2010, as a gift for my mother, her sister, my aunt Marjorie Landsmark-DeLewis, then 90―one of Juilliard’s first African American graduates―taped a solo piano performance of “Widmung” (Schumann/Liszt) and her own composition “For Muriel...” Recorded on a cassette player from home on her Steinway grand, the sound quality is poor; the performance stellar.