Arizona republican., 1918-09-13
SCHOOL IF MUSIC WILL bE OPENED 0N MONDAY NEXT

Mrs. Shirley Christy. director of the Arizona School of Music, who has been sojourning on the coast for the past few weeks, returned recently to make the final preparations for the opening of the fifteenth year of the school on next Monday, and to superintendent the registration of the pupils. The promises of success for this coming school year are brighter than ever be- fore. due to a number of brilliant new artists which have been added to the present excellent faculty.
 Franz Darvas, the gifted head of the piano department for the past three Il years is now in France with the 134th infantry. Although Mrs. Christy has had many applicants who were well | qualified for this position she values the work of her first assistant piano instructor Frank Ronald Evans. so highly that she has decided to have him take MT Darvas' pupils Mir. Evans is graduate of the New Eng land Conservatory of Music and | studied under well known teachers in Europe for two years. He has also | had a great deal of study of teaching methods under Vernon Spencer, and | for the past summer has been pupil | of that great master pianist, Godow- i sky.
 Raymond A. Martin. graduate of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and pupil of Hattstaedt, Weidig and Middleschulte. has been chosen as the successor of Mir. Evans. Mir. Martin not only is an experienced
 hut by the musical circles of the city owing
 to the success he has attained as a concert pianist. In Chicago he was in constant demand as an accompanst Mrs. Charles T. Weir, who has done such splendid work with this school Tor the past six years, which is well demonstrated by the excellent results shown by her pupils, will continue as
 before. Edith E. Edwards, who came
 to the school last year from Boulder, | Col, with a record of ten years of successful teaching in that city, has proven her value as teacher by re- i taining a large class of pupils during
 all of the warm summer months. The
 piano primary department will remain
 in charge of Mrs. Luther Steward, one
 of the best specialists in childrens piano study in the west Her system
 is practically her own. having been
 garnered by her from vast study of all the very best systems of primary methods. Children are given private lessons in connection with class work,
 and one years class work is given free
 of charge to the pupils.
 l. One Of the most important addi- tions to this years coterie of instruc- tors is that of the cultured artists. | Mir Romeo Prick and his wife, Karola ] fn h
 high reputation as both singers and
 teachers in the east and abroad. and their acquisition to the faculty of this school at this time is very fortunate
 flor the opportunity it affords singers
 ln this vicinity of obtaining the very best instruction to be had. Mr. Prick who is an American, born in Indiana
 at the time of the outbreak of the war
 had large class of pupils both Amer lcan and European, in Berlin. His wife, Karola Prick, under his instruc-
 tion became one of the leading and most successful prima donnas of Eng
 land and Europe. Mir. and Mrs. Prick are most happy find, and will add much to. the musical and social cir cles of this city
 Those interested in the violin will be , pleased to learn that H. Klingerfeld. master of the art of the violin. will still have charge of that department. As perhaps many know Mr. Klinger- field gained his thorough knowledge of
 that instrument at the Leipsic con- : servatory, of which he is a graduate. ? He also was member of the Wagner l Opera Festival orchestra at Bayreuth and was for five years principal violin l instructor at the conservatory at To- l ronto, Canada.
 9 Another commendable addition to r the corps of instructors of this school y will be Francisco Ramos, teacher oi
 languages and the clarinet, and the in } Ventor of the Ramos clarinet system 7 which is highly recommended by Johr , Phillips Sousa, Bellucci, first clarinet f player of the Metropolitan operahoust 7 orchestra. and other notable players O s this instrument. Although Mr. Ramo. e lived most of his life in Paris, he is { = native of Spain. In this country h, Q taught in the University of Chicago a, [. teacher of French and Spanish. ant = was also an instructor of the clarine o in that city.
 | For instruction on the guitar an, r mandolin there will be J. w. Roebuci n for the former and Mrs. R. T. Harriso, = Tor the latter-Who will continue thei }. successful work in these branches. Ex 2 cellent advantages will also be give IF for the study of other stringed instru e ments, the cornet and other wind in - Struments.
 Another-Although not a new-sta = Tn this Armament of artistic endeavo . will shine with brighter luster this sea ,e son, by reason of recent high honor 9 attained in her graduatio from tn el Columbia College of Expression. w ,r refer to Vivian F'lorine Young. a na ,e tive daughter, graduate from tn S. school in 1916 and who is already we l. known and exceedingly popular as a st accomplished and entertaining reade re She has spent the summer tourin d with the Redpath Chatauqua Burea
 through Pennsylvania, Ohio and We.
 Virginia. Miss Young will have chars
 of the expression department of tf
 school.
 Dancing will continue to form a ,g important branch in the work of tn e. school, being under the direction tn 1g year, as last, of Edna Paula Revar b. whose ability along this line was we III illustrated last year by the populari )r Of her classes and the public perform
 ances given by her pupils portrayt
 more than anything else could the fiji
 artistry of her teaching. All styles
 dancing, interpretive, esthetic, to
 Oriental, Folk. characteristic, nation nd and ballroom will come under the hes at Of this department.
 v,, The school opens today for the regi e tration of pupils in all department no and general work begins the followil