Bellamy's father was a musician who had come down in the world. They were poor -- and proud-and lived in the slums in New York. Then the father got a job with the Boston Symphony; they went to Boston to live, and a new life opened out, with Bellamy able at last to follow in her famous dancer-grandmother's footsteps, and use the gift that was hers. Not a particularly significant story, nor very distinguished in the telling.