The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Vermont Methodist Seminary.
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS.

Are you looking for strictly frst-cass adj
vantages in Music or Art? The Depart
ment of Fine Arts of the Vermont Metho-
dist Seminary can supply that demand.
This department is open to all, irrespective
of age or education, and at very moderate
expense. We call your attention to certain
facts:
FirSt-The department is wel-equipped
for good work. The musical instruments
are not the usual " tin pianos of schools,
but are from factories of the best manu-
facturers, and mostly new. The pipe-organ
is two-manual Oftwenty-one registers, and
one of the sweetest-toned organs in the
state. The art rooms are favorably situated,
well lighted and supplied with casts and
needful appliances.
lSecond-Students in this department may
receive the same care and accommodations
as those in the Academic Department.
Parents placing their children here for mu-
sic or art only may rest assured that they
will have not only tirst-class instruction,
but the advantages of refined Christian
home
Third-The instruction is of the highest
order. The director of music is gentle
man of culture, long experience and wide
reputation. That Professor Blanpied has
no superior as teacher of music in New
England, outside of Boston, is shown by the
following letter from the late DR.. +. Tour
jee, director of the New England Conserva-
tory of Music, Boston: " can heartily con-
graduate you upon your good fortune in be-
ing able to place your Department of Music
under the direction of so competent and
experienced a musician as Professor Blan-
pied. He studied in this institution for
some years, and completed the college
course with honor and | consider him emf
nently qualified to do trst-cas work. He
is not only thorough musician, with a
broad range of availability, but his talent
in composition is gaining recognition, and |
am sure that he has bright future before
him. He is, withal a very earnest Chris
tan gentleman, and will exert helpful and
stimulating influence for good over all who
may be able to profit by his instructions.
When your students shall have completed
the course with you, we shall be happy to
welcome them to our advanced grade, and
give them full credit for all they have ac-
complished under Professor Blanpied,
knowing that whatever he has done will be
well DONE" His assistants are ladies of
rare ability who have proved themselves
capable teachers. Graduates of this de-
partment enter the highest grade of the
New England Conservatory without exam
ination. The large number of enthusiastic
pupils is evidence that the very superior adj
Vantages OF the department are becoming
appreciated. At comparatively small cost,
students may take the course here with
absolute assurance that they will have
nothing to unlearn when they enter the
best school of music in America; and that
their voices may be developed without any
danger of being injured. In art we are able
to offer superior opportunities for the study
of cast drawing, crayoning, and painting in
water coors and oils.
FOurth-Our pupils have opportunities for
studying the history OF music, and of attend
ing musicales in which different pupils take
part, and, at nominal cost of attending
concerts given by eminent artists. During
the past year, in addition to several fine
entertainments by resident musicians, we
have enjoyed concerts by George E. Whit
ney, organist G. +. Dennee, pianist; Willis
Novel;, yiolinist; e. b. Perry, the blind
pianist: the Temple and Ariel quartettes,
and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
FWh-To accommodate pupils of the
town, as well as many who come in on the
cars for instruction, we have secured "a room
on Main street, where lessons will be given
in instrumental, and, if the number of calls
warrant, in vocal music also. Miss Serb
ner will visit limited number of younger
pupils for instrumental lessons at their
homes.
Our rates for art are S12 per term
for vocal and instrumental music, S1S for
twenty-four lessons. The same grade of in
struction in Boston would cost three or four
times as much. We do not attempt TO COM
pete in prices with hundreds who call them
selves teachers, and yet who do not have
even the rudiments of a music or art educa-
ton. Apply to Rev. E. A. Bishop, princi-
pal, Montpelier, VT