A-Infos (en) US, OBITUARY, Clara Solomon, 87, Pianist, Anarchist

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OBITUARIES / Clara Solomon, 87, Pianist, Anarchist
( Newsday ) ; 12-22-2000

Clara Solomon, a pianist and music educator who linked several
generations of the anarchist movement in America, died Wednesday at New
York Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 87 and lived in
Rego Park.

    For her lifelong political involvement, Solomon was profiled at
length
by Queens College historian Paul Avrich in his book "Anarchist Voices"
and the
radio stations WNYC/93.9 FM and WBAI/99.5 FM.

    Born in New York on July 30, 1913, Solomon grew up primarily in the
Stelton anarchist colony in Piscataway, N.J. and was educated in its
experimental
Modern School. The eldest child of Samuel Freedman, a garment-union
activist
who also served as business manager of the anarchist newspaper Freie
Arbeiter Shtimme (Free Voice of Labor), Solomon became active in the
movement in her
teens, once hitchhiking from New Jersey to Toronto to visit anarchist
leader
Emma Goldman and in the 1930s agitating in support of anarchist
revolutionaries  in Spain. She met her future husband, Sidney Solomon,
when he was drumming
in an all-anarchist jazz band.

    Although the anarchist movement dwindled in the United States,
Solomon
remained devoted to it long enough to figure in its modest revival in
the
1990s as a mentor to a young generation of activists. She helped to
found the
Atlantic Anarchist Circle, a coalition of anarchists from Quebec to
Washington, D.C.

    Solomon began studying piano at age 7 and had graduated from
Juilliard
by 18. Over the years, she performed at such venues as Alice Tully Hall
and
Carnegie Recital Hall. She taught in the Adamant Music School in
Vermont,
the Dalton School and Little Red School House, both in Manhattan, and
numerous
settlement houses and community centers.

    Solomon is survived by her husband, Sidney, and a son, Raymond, both
of
Queens; and two brothers, David of Highland Park, N.J., and Sigmund of
New
Brunswick, N.J. Her funeral is today at Parkside Memorial Funeral Home
in Queens.


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