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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=03-Dec-2010&lang=de&s=3733
03-Dec-2010
by Colin Gustafson
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| Photo above: Salvatore Febbraio and AAA President Linda Solely Reed earlier this year. Salvatore Febbraio, a Mount Vernon native who founded and ran a music school in his hometown for more than 50 years, died Saturday, November 27, 2010 at his home on Parkway East. He was 75. In 1956, he founded the Febbraio School of Music of Westchester in Mount Vernon. Today it has more than 200 students and a staff of about 15. He continued to serve as director until his death. "It was something he loved," said his younger son, Gregg Febbraio, 49, an attorney who lives in Greenwich, Conn. Febbraio studied music and education at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, before receiving a doctoral degree in music from New York University. His more noteworthy performances as an accordionist include a concert he did with students at the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens and a 1965 reunion party for West Point's class of 1915, where he performed for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, family members said. His former students have performed on the concert stage, Broadway and throughout the world, and remarkably for six USA Presidents- Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan and Bush. Salvatore Febbraio was a long time member of the Governing Board of the American Accordionists' Association. More information can be found in the USA News, December 2010 edition. |