Washington Montessori School's Brush With Burundi: the Percussion of Hope WASHINGTON—It was like an intercultural algebra equation—what was done on one side of the Atlantic Ocean had to be done on the other. A two-week February trip to the Republic of Burundi, an easily overlooked and impoverished nation in eastern Africa, proved fateful and harmonically edifying for Washington Montessori School music teacher Matilda Giampietro.
Jan. 5, 2014 - Litchfield County Times