abstract:Ansonia (Stream Toads) is a small genus of true toads found in South India; northern Thailand; Malay Peninsula; Tioman Island; Borneo and Mindanao (Philippines). These are small forest species which spawn in streams and have torrent-adapted tadpoles.
Mr. Schuman lives in Manhattan, where he often gives private lessons at his home in the Ansonia, an Upper West Side apartment building favored by generations of classical musicians and singers.
Bands from New Jersey, Massachusetts and elsewhere came to Warsaw Park in the 1960s and into the 1980s, says Helen Ptak of Ansonia, who ran the dances at the park's pavilion.