The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
CONSERVATORY
ALUMNI FORM
ORGANIZATION
Jordan School Action Held
Most important Taken
in Past Year.

Organization of a well-founded
alumni association which main
tains constant contact with former
students and faculty members was
a major achievement Of the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory of Music dur
ing the last year. All former STU
dents and alumni of the conSer-
Vatory, the Metropolitan School OF
Music and the indianapolis College
of Music and Fine Arts are mem
berS of the association.
Officers recently elected to serve
during the coming year are Har-
old E. WinslOw, president; Hum
bert Pagani, vice president, and
Ernst Michelis, Secretary-treasurer.
All are members of the Conserva-
tory faculty and plan dinner to
be given in March during a meet
ing in indianapolis of the Music
Educators National Conference.
Working with the alumni aSSoci-
alton, Joseph Little, recently ap-
pointed field secretary Of the con-
servatory, assists in the organiza-
ton of class and individual in
struction among students Of grade
and high school ages.
Evidence of increased interest in
the study of music as offered by
the conservatory was shown last
year when it was found necessary
to establish an extension division
at Louisville, KY, to accommodate
students of that city. The division
was founded to satisfy part Of the
demand growing out of a 80 per
cent increase in conservatory en-
rollment during 1884.
All work taken in the Louisville
branch may be credited toward
graduate or undergraduate degrees
or toward conservatory certificates.
Courses offered there include or
gan, advanced music history, con-
Quoting and harmony.
During 1884, more than 1200 per-
sons were enrolled as students in
the conservatory. Among these
were Is students who received
scholarships based upon their per-
Torrance in the second annual
statewide music contest sponsored
by the conservatory. Out of IS par
Elephants, the following were Sc
lected: Misses Ruth Lucky, Cor
nelia Keuzenkamp. Ruth Brown,
Lillian Starost and Partha Parrish,
indianapolis; Bonnie Jean Beale
and Ben L. Niles, Rushville; Gill
'ert Kellberg, Hobart; Miss Lea
more Kohn, KokOmO; Miss Edith
Kruzan, Brazil; Miss Lois Mccain,
Delphi; Harry Michel, Cleveland, O.,
and Justine Meyer, Fairfield, III.
A new Kilgen organ. particularly
adapted for concerts and individual
instruction, was dedicated March Is
by Prof. Donald G. Gilley head of
the organ department. Dedication
of the instrument opened a new field
of instruction for the conservatory
previously handicapped by the lack
of adequate equipment.
Conservatory concerts during the
last year have presented more than
700 students and faculty members.
The conservatory orchestra of 60
pieces is complete in Instrumentation
and under the direction of Hugh j.
McGibeny performs major orchestral
work. Its first concert of 1885 will
be given Jan. Is in the John Heron
Art Institute.
The conservatory choir of 40 voices
under the direction of Max T. Krone,
has established a national reputation
in music circles. It has been heard
in concert in many of the larger
cities Of Indiana and surrounding
states, ana was called upon to ap-
pear before the Music Supervisors
National Conference in Chicago last
April.
The conservatory is endowed by
the 100000 Jordan Foundation,
making it possible to offer unlimited
possibilities to students of music.
Three conveniently located branches
are maintained in Indianapolis.
First annual May Music Festival
was presented in 1894 by members of
the conservatory drametic art de-
partment, ballet, orchestra, choir,
piano ensemble, voice department
and piano faculty. The fotr-day
festival included presentations of
Midsummer Nights Dream and
the opera, Don Pasquale, sung in
English.