Lilly Popper was an American piano teacher. She was a founding director of the Metropolitan Music School in New York, preceded by the Downtown Music School. Popper, the director the Metropolitan Music School, described the school as an exercise in "democracy in action." Popper had been the director of the school since 1947.
On April 10, 1957, Popper took the fifth when she was brought before the House Committee of Un-American Activities and accused of being a member of the Communist Party. The inquiry was in relation to communism's affect on music in the United States. a former teacher at the school, Leonard Cherlin, accused Popper of holding Communist Party meetings in her director's quarters at the school.
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