Moving files relative to their parent directory

[r-cpr]

Previously I was storing all of my music in ~/music/ and on import beets would rename each albums directory.

Now I would like to restructure my directories to the following for sharing purposes:
~/music/public
~/music/private

When I import the ~/music folder, all albums are moved from the public/private directories into the top level music directory.
Is there a way to configure beets to import my library with one command while keeping albums within their public/private parent directories?