Louise Behrend, a concert violinist who trained a generation of American teachers in the Suzuki method and whose standing as a musician helped the Japanese movement establish itself in the United States, died Aug. 3 at Montgomery Hospice’s Casey House in Rockville. She was 94 and had complications from dementia, her family said. Ms. Behrend, a native Washingtonian, grew up in a musical family that included an uncle whose inventions led to the development of the phonograph. She was a toddler when she tried to enroll herself in violin lessons. Read full article > >

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Louise Behrend, concert violinist and Suzuki method teacher, dies at 94