Arizona republican., 1908-06-07
ONE VERY NOTABLE
LOCAL INSTITUTION
The Arizona School of Music-Sketch
of its History and Faculty and
Where ard How the Latter Will
Spend thc Summer.

Wednesday, June 3, marked the clos
ing Of the fourth year of the Arizona
School of Music This institution
which ranks with the best in the west,
is one of the great advertising fes-
lures ~ the valley, and a number of
families have already been induced to
locate here because of the superior ad-
vantage offered for the study of music.
The school is under the management
of Mrs. Shirley Christy, who founded
the institution in october, 1904 asso-
ciating with herself as teacher of piano
her pupil. Grace Abbie Andrews. and
Il teacher of vocal music. Karl Coch-
ems of Wisconsin. From this begin
ming the project grew rapidly and sub
stantially. until at the present time
there are departments for study in all
branches of music, and five teachers
for the piano alone
J. Homer Grunn, the director Of the
piano department is an artist whose
equal is seldom found in . city of this
size; and many young people have
availed themselves of his superior in
struction. During the year Mr. Grunn
has rendered in public many of the
fine compositions of the masters.
which are in themselves an education
His summer vacation win be spent in
Prescott and northern Arizona. Miss
Gertrude Trump, pianist. also a super
Tor artist and teacher, who has had
the best of advantages in this country
and Europe, will spend the vacation
With her parents in Kahoka. Mo
Miss Grace Abbie Andrews. whose
musical abilities Phoenix people have
long appreciated, will sail July . on
the steamer Aremika. for a year
abroad Miss Andrews will tour Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, France and
Switzerland. taking up her musical
studies in the early fall in Leipsic.
Germany.
In Thomas Francis Hughes. director
Of the vocal department, Phoenix has
musician whose place would be diff
ficult to fill. He combines with ability
To instruct and train the human voice
superior musicianship As a concert
singer Mr.. Hughes is remarkably sue
cessful and as a conductor of oratorio
music his ability was shown i'm the
fine rendition OF the Creation and the
Messiah" by the Phoenix Choral So
ciety. Mr.. Hughes has been engaged
as tenor in the Methodist church choir
for next winter. He viii be assisted
in his teaching the coming year by his
talented wife, Inez Francisco Hughes.
In engaging Frank LLOYD Stuchal as
teacher of the violin Mrs. Christv was
most fortunate, as ne has built up that
department Cthe youngest in the
SCHOOL, until it is now on thorough
systematic basis. Mr.. Stuchal is not
only a violinist, but a patient teacher
of his instrument, and that not only
with advanced students for among his
pupils are many children from six to
fourteen years Of age whose progress I
has been most satisfactory. He has a
class Of pupils for the vacation in
Prescott, and he and Mrs. Stuchal viii
furnish the music for the summer at
Iron Springs.
Mrs. MAY French Cooley, whose abiI-
tiles are well known here. has been
offered a position in a summer school
of expression in Seattle, under the not
ed DR. Curry, with whom she took /.
some work last summer in Boston. but /
as Yet her plans are not perfected. I
Mrs. Cooley is a reader and impersOn- I
ator Of marked ability. and as a teach .
or Of her art she is extremely gifted I
and successful Few persons could 4
have a class Of young and ineXperi- /
enced students and brought them in a .
few weeks drill To such a degree Of 4
excellence as Mrs. Cooley did the high
school senior class in their play The .
Maneuvers Of lane" which was de- .
clared by many to be the equal Of
such affairs usually given by univer- 1
sity students.
Mr. Fred Alden, teacher Of cornet .
and band instruments, viii accept pu-
pills for the summer. Mr.. Alden is a