Evening star., 1934-09-23
College of Music Plans.
THE Washington College of Music

The Washington College of Music
opened its thirty-first year on
September 10 with a faculty num-
ber.ng over 80 artist and assistant
teachers and an increased enrolment.
Several important new courses and
faculty additions are announced by the
president, Fanny Amstutz Roberts,
who has recently been made a fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts of Lon
don, England.
While the college is concerned for
the most part with giving the highest
type of professional instruction to
those students whose superior talent
justifles the expectation of their find
ing a place in the profession, 1t also
recognizes the changing social and
economic conditions and assumes a
responsibility toward adult education
and the training Of groups of people
in a constructive use Of leisure.
Henry Gregor, as a new faculty
member, Is organizing music dis
cussion groups" for whom he will de-
liver a course of lectures illustrated
at the piano. taking into account
the needs and the psychology of the
layman. Mr.. Gregor was a student
at the Imperial Conservatory in
Moscow. graduate of the ROYAL
Academy in Berlin, studying piano
with Rudorff, Barth and Dohnanyi
composition under Max Bruch: organ
under Wolf, and history under DR.
Carl I. Krebs. He was a student in
philosophy at the University of Berlin
His published writings include vocal
and instrumental works. He is known
here and abroad as a concert artist
and pedagogue.
Emanuel Zetlin will return the first
OF October from France, where he Is
now visiting his parents. Mr.. Zetlin,
with Mrs. Roberts, pianist, and James
Thurmond, French hornist, will per-
form the Brahms Horn Trio at an
ensemble concert to be given at the
college early next month. At this
time there will also be heard the Bach
Concerto in G Major" originally
written for three harpsichords, ar
ranged for three pianos by Harold
Bauer and which will be played by
Beth King, Victor Neal and William
Holden. Other faculty programs oc-
curing in October will be given by
Dorothy Nef Tyler, soprano, and
Robert Ruckman, pianist.
Samuel Feldman of the violin de-
rartment has returned from New Eng.
| land, where he has been playing a
| series Of concerts at the invitation OF
Senator Hiram Bingham. One Of
these appearances was at the house
in New London where Edward Mac
| Dowell was married. The concert was
given for the MacDowell fund ano
was marked by the presence of the
composers widow. Mr.. Feldman has
been re-engaged to appear with
John Powell, the pianist, in Char.
| lottesville, Va. Miksa Merson, Hun
garian pianist, will sail next week fol
Europe to be gone several months
Tamara Dmirtrieff of the piano stat
has had charge of the broadcasts o.
the local Federation of Music Club.
programs over WRC during the Sum.
mer absence of Thelma Callahan
Evelyn Monico begins her first season
with the college as teacher of piano
/ She is a icentiate and medalist OF
the Royal Academy of Music in Lon.
don and well-known locally as ar
acompaniSt as well as soloist.
New courses announced includ,
those in muSicology, music librarian.
ship and music criticism, which viii
be presented under noted authorities
The class in normal training will have
as guest lecturers representative teach.
erS of various schools.
In the endeavor to assist at all time.
in fitting music study into the need!
OF the new social order and to CO.
operate with all the agencies engaged
In this purpose, the college has vel.
coined the presence of the newly.
formed Washington Music Teachers
Association, which held all of it.
meetings at the school last season
The District Of Columbia Federation
Of Music Clubs also conducted severa
program and board meetings there. a,
did also the Washington Pianists' Clut
under Mrs. Martin Morrison.