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T H E   U N I V E R S I T Y   S C H O O L   O F   M U S I C

Built On a Rock the Church Doth

   Stand

Lindeman-Christiansen

Bedictus

Liszt

Deck Thyself, My Soul With Gladness

Christiansen

Now Sinks the Golden Sun to Rest

Parker, 1863

The Shepherd

Lutkin

Praise to the Lord

Christiansen

   THE SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is an organization of fifty to seventy-five pieces, open without charge to all students of orchestral instruments. All orchestral instrument students are required to play in the orchestra as soon as they show themselves capable of reading orchestral scores. The orchestra is under the direction of a man of long experience as a teacher of violin and conductor of orchestras, with wide experience in orchestral activities. A glance at the programs outlined below for the season 1927-'28 will give an idea of the high grade of musical compositions studied and produced by the orchestra each year.

PROGRAM NO. 1

Overture, "Lenore," No. 3

Beethoven

Symphony, No. 4

Mendelssohn

Youth

Borowsky

PROGRAM NO. 2

Overture, "Der Freischutz"

Weber

Symphony, No. 5

Tschaikowsky

PROGRAM NO. 3

Overture, "Midsummer Night's Dream"

Mendelssohd (sic)

Second Symphony

Beethoven

Dance of the Tumblers, from "The Snow Maiden

Rimsky-Korsakow

PROGRAM NO. 4

Overture, "Fingal's Cave

Mendelssohn

Symplionic Suite, "Schcherazade"

Rimsky-Korsakow

Blue Danube Waltzes

Strauss

The Shepherd's Hey

Percy Grainger

Mollie on the Shore

Percy Grainger

   It is the object of the BAND ENSEMBLE to give thorough routine training to students of all band instruments.

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   This is an experience without which no student may consider his preparation for band experience complete. Regardless of the number of private lessons and technical instruction a student may have on his chosen instrument, he must come under the conditions of the actual ensemble in order to gain the proper poise for this type of playing.

   During the past year, the band ensemble group has studied, among others the following compositions:

Overture to "Egmont"

Beethoven

Overture "Poet and Peasant

Suppe

Overture "Il Guarney"

Gomez

Overture "Jolly Robbers"

Suppe

Overture "Beautiful Galatea "

Suppe

Selection "Il Trovatore"

Verdi

Selection "Carmen "

Bizet

   THE BRASS CHOIR is another form of ensemble for the benefit of the more advanced players of the brass instruments. Not only does it offer a most desirable school of ensemble routine, but it also introduces the student to some of the finer possibilities of the brass group of instruments. Entrance to the Brass Choir is upon examination and the membership is limited to twenty. Special arrangements of the classics only are studied in this class.

   FRATERNITIES AND SORORITES (sic). Phi Mu Alpha (Sinfonia) Upsilon chapter, is sponsored by The University School of Music and all of the men students in music are eligible to membership in this fraternity. None but those of high character above the average in music ability can hope to be invited to membership, but the earnest, hardworking, well equipped man seriously studying music, will, in all probability, be invited to be initiated into the organization.

   Sigma Alpha Iota is a professional musical sorority. The Kappa chapter is located at The University School of Music. It is a national organization. It admits young women of high ideals and marked musical ability from the student body of the School.

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   Mu Phi Epsilon is a national honorary sorority. The Mu Gamma chapter is located in The University School of Music. Young women of junior standing, high ideals and marked musical ability are eligible to membership, as well as certain professional musicians who are invited to join the organization.

   Pi Kappa Lambda is an honorary musical fraternity. Only one-fourth of the graduating class of each year is eligible to membership in this fraternity, and it is considered one of the highest honors that can be conferred on a graduate to be invited to membership in this honorary musical fraternity.

   The MacDowell Club is a local non-secret organization which was organized in honor of Edward MacDowell, the great American composer and pianist. The organization i's very active and carries out a more or less definitely planned program each year, and contributes annually to the MaeDowell Fund at Peterboro, N. H.

 

MUSICAL ACTIVITIES

Faculty

   Outside of the studio work of members of the faculty, many of them are engaged in regular musical work within the city.

   Mr. Howard Kirkpatrick, organist and choir conductor St. Paul M. E. Church.

   Mr. John Rosborough, choir director Westminster Presbyterian Church.

   Lillian Polley, widely known lecture recitalist and soprano soloist, First Church of Christ Scientist.

   Mr. Herbert Gray, choir conductor, Grace M. E. Church; 'cellist Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Edith Burlingim Ross, organist First Presbyterian Church and Jewish Synagogue.

   Vera Upton, soprano soloist, First Plymouth Congregational Church and choir conductor at Jewish Synagogue.

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   Bertha Owings Aydelott, choir conductor Tabernacle Christian Church.

   Homer Compton, tenor soloist, Jewish Synagogue.

   Marjorie Little Keim, organist Westminster Presbyterian Church.

   Don Berry, president of and solo trumpeter Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Earnest Harrison, violinist in Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Harry E. Warfel, clarinetist in Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Carl Frederic Steckelberg, concert meister in Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Hazel Hitchey, president of National Sigma Alpha Iota sorority.

   Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, author and conductor of institutes in the Kinscella Method.

   Charles Boardman Righter, Jr., director orchestral and band activities in the Lincoln Public Schools, violinist in Lincoln Little Symphony Orchestra.

   Glen M. Case, director of vocal activities in Lincoln High School and supervisor of the same work in all junior High Schools of the city.

   Besides these regular engagements, many members of the faculty are engaged as professional accompanists and Soloists in oratorios and concert work throughout the state.


Students

   The students, especially of the upper classes of the School, have taken part during the past year in more than one hundred programs in and out of Lincoln. They appear as soloists, in ensemble groups and as accompanists for such occasions as banquets, special lodge meetings, church gatherings, home circle clubs, civic organizations, Parent-Teachers' Association and convocations.

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   Scores of students sing for radio programs and scarcely a night during the radio season but that one or more students are engaged to sing for commercial or educational organizations, who engage the broadcasting hours of some local broadcasting station or stations in other cities.

   Students play and sing in local orchestras and chorus groups for theatres and churches.

   There is scarcely a chorus choir in the city that is not largely made up of music students, many of whom appear for experience and some are paid as soloists in quartets and choirs.

Our Graduates

   It would be quite impossible to enumerate the places throughout the country where the graduates of The Univiersity School of Music are occupying prominent musical positions. They are teachers in conservatories and in departments of music in colleges; they are soloists in concert groups; they direct and supervise the music in hundreds of cities and towns and many of them have risen to places of fame as concert artists.

   The graduates of The University School of Music are uniformly successful, which fact is due to the superior training which they receive throughout their musical course. They not only have technical foundation, but sufficient experience along with their work as students to give them case and command when they get into responsible positions as teachers and performers.

 

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TYPICAL RECITAL PROGRAMS

Post-Graduate

   Bach-Liszt, Prelude and Fugue, A minor; Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 57, (Allegro assai, Andante conmoto, Allegro ma non troppo); Brahms, Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2; Chopin Etudes, Op. 25, No. 2, Trios Etude, No. 2, Op. 10, No. 5; Dohnanyi, Etude Capriccio, Op. 28, No. 6.

   Scarlatti, Se Florindo e fedele; Haydn, With Verdure Clad; Schumann Widmung; Brahms, Wic bist du meine Koenigin; Beethoven, Delizia; Schubert, The Post; Verdi, Enani, Ernani Involami, from "Ernani", Salter, A Night in Naishapur (Song Cycle); Carpenter, When I Bring You Colored Toys; Abt, Cuckoo Shall I Grow Old; Gilbert, Two Roses; Ware, Sunlight; Salter, Wind in the Corn; Duparc, Road to Rosemund.

   Rubinstein, Sonata, (Allegro moderato, Allegretto, Allegro molto); Klughardt, Concerto, A minor (Massig bewegt, Sehr Langsam, Lebhaft); Glazounow, Serenade Espagnole; Mendelssohn, On Wings of Song; Popper, Harlequin, from "Scenes from a Masked Ball."

For Graduation-Piano

   Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3 (Allegro, Allegretto vivace, Minuetto, Presto con fuoco); Chopin, Andante spianato; Scherzo, B flat minor; Giffes, The White Peacock; Carpenter, Diversions, I and IV; Rachmaninoff, Concerto, F sharp minor, Third Movement.

   Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 31, No. 1 (Allegro vivace, Adagio grazioso, Rondo; MacDoweil, Erbahlung; Chopin, Three Preludes, Nos. 10, 11, 18; Debussy, Clair di lune; Torjussen, Northern Lights; Liszt, Rhapsody, No. 5; Weber-Tausig, Invitation to the Dance.

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Voice

   Paisiello, Net cor piu non; Chi vuol la Zingarella; Mozart, Dove Sono, from "Le Nozze de Figaro"; Folk Songs, Pocky Povin (Bohemian); Kudy Kudy Kudy cesticka (Bohemian); Nar jag Blef Sjutton ar (Swedish); Uber Berg und Thal (Swiss); Schumann, Dein Angesiecht; Liszt, O Lieb; Franz, Ich Hab in Deinem Auge; Wolfe, Fussreisse; Verdi, Pace, Pace Mio Dio, from "La Forza Del Destino"; Debussy, Romance; Scott, Blackbird's Song; ColeridgeTaylor, Life and Death; Fred Cardin, Goodnight; Woodman, Love's in My Heart.

   Handel, Angels Ever Bright and Fair; Scarlatti, Gia il Sole dal gauge; Veraccini, A Pastoral; Arne, Polly Willis; Schumann, Almond Tree; Schubert, Faith in Spring; Mendelssohn, Row Gently Here; Schubert, To Be Sung on the Waters; Massenet, Il est doux, il est bon; Saar, Little Gray Dove; Beach, The Lotus Isles; Paladilhe, Psyche; Homer, Sing Me a Song; Chadwick, Danza; Clutsum, Woodland Croon Song; Yon, When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies; Dvorak, Good Night.

   Old Italian, arr. by Bruno Hahn, Lungi dal caro bene; Bishop, (Old English) Love Has Eyes; Handel, Care Selve, from "Atlanta:'; Mozart, Deh vieni, non tarder, from "Le Nozze de Figaro"; Folk Songs, Arr. by Schindler, Berceuse (Bayou. Ballad of the Louisiana Plantations); Col. by Lummis, La Primavera; La Hamaca; Arr. by Weckerlin, Bergere legere; Massenet, Obbediam del corre alla voce, from "Manon"; Lieurance, Snowflakes; Stratton, May Magic; MacFayden, Cradle Song; Brahe, A Japanese Love Song; Lieurance, She Stands There Smiling.

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REGULATIONS

   Tuition is payable in advance at the time of registration.

   No refund shall be made for lessons missed except in cases of prolonged illness or other reasonable extended absence from the school, approved by the Director.

   Students leaving school voluntarily before the end of any term shall be refunded not to exceed one-half of unused tuition.

   Students may not insist that missed lessons be made up. If the teacher agrees to do so he does it on his own responsibility.

   When lessons fall on holidays, except Thanksgiving and Memorial Day, teachers will put forth every effort to make up such missed lessons.

   Strict attendance upon class lessons, all choral and ensemble rehearsals, and all convocations, is required.

   Strict attendance upon all recitals is expected.

   Assignment to class or private lessons pledges faithful attendance and diligent study.

   Any change from one course to another, from one teacher to another, must first meet with the approval of the Dean and Director.

   Examination for advanced credits and special examinations must be arranged for through the office.

   All matters of business are taken care of at the office and must not be discussed in the studios.

   We reserve the right to refund tuition and dismiss from the school any who are found unworthy of the school's support.

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   Rates of tuition for a term of ten weeks, two lessons each week, unless otherwise indicated.

   Tuition payable on date of registration.

PIANOFORTE

MRS. WILL OWEN JONES

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MRS. LURA SCHULER SMITH

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MR. HERBERT SCHMIDT

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MISS HAZEL KINSCELLA

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MR. EARNEST HARRISON

   Private lesson, thirty minutes

60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MR. PHILIP HUDSON

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MISS MARGUERITE KLINKER

MRS. EDITH BURLINGIM ROSS

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

50.00

   One lesson a week

27.50

MISS GEORGIA SHELDON

MISS MARIEL JONES

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

45.00

   One lesson a week

23.50

MISS KATHERINE KIMBALL

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

35.00

   One lesson a week

18.50

MRS. BERTHA AYDELOTT

MISS FRANCES MORLEY

Private lessons, thirty minutes

30.00

One lesson a week

16.50

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MISS EMMA STRANGMAN

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

20.00

   One lesson a week

12.00

PRIMARY CLASSES FOR PIANO STUDY AT THE SOUTH BRANCH SCHOOL

MISS GENEVIEVE WILSON

MISS WHILMA ANDERSON

   Class, hour lessons

$12.00

   Private lessons

20.00

   One lesson a week

12.00

   One class lesson and one private lesson a week

14.00

PIPE ORGAN

MRS. EDITH BURLINGIM ROSS

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$50.00

   One lesson a week

26.50

VOICE

MR. HOWARD KIRKPATRICK

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

MRS. LILLIAN HELMS POLLEY

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$60.00

   One lesson a week

35.00

   (Including tuition to methods and repertoire classes)

   Class lessons (4 to 6) one hour, each student

30.00

MR. HOMER COMPTON

   Private lessons, thirty minutes

$50.00

   One lesson a week

27.50

MISS VERA UPTON

MR. HERBERT GRAY

   Private lessons. thirty minutes

$40.00

   One lesson a week

22.50

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