Show IN lq COUNTY SC SCHOOL the departs dep artno mt int of music and drawing in the carbon county high school will thia this year be under the of prof irving gingrich who he for the last four year hns all instructor of voice piano and public I 1 chool methods hoila in tho ali couill traill indiana consecratory of if music professor Protes eor U engrich began his mui I 1 teal training at tho the early nga age of eight bears fara and wua was one of twenty of the moat most proficient of over three thousand public school pupils chosen to give an ope operate rattA at the end of the first year mitat music was taught in the south bind blud schools ilia instrumental training was started soon after and lie be begun to write melodies when he had dalily hai lly learned tho the ecale scale and the various noto note values ilia ills voice bad had hardly before be he was in the lifavi heaviest st of classic choruses and oratorios such as bloz arts twelfth maiss gou kaiv vl A 1 PROF IRVING nod a So lonelle elijah handel s messiah Mee elah hardne Creat loi Barn Barri bye bys rebecca etc at about thia this period professor at abrich entered the peopled people m collego conservatory studying roice voice with airs adele matthew matthews and mm mrs elsie barbeaux Bi conger conser and piano and theory under frederic nelsea this study wae was followed by a graduate course in in the miam ean gan state college troia which ho he received the 13 sc degree in 1902 influenced by bis his barents probes eor or gingrich entered ur or a business career following musical work only aa as an amateur the lure ot of the profession and the delro desire to instruct too much and in 1908 he reentered the musical profession aa as supervisor of music and drawing in tho syracuse and later in the alom well indiana schools he lie then became a rl member of the south dead bond conservatory faculty tal alty which position lon ie I e has line held to the present time that his twenty years experience as a director dir ettor of f choruses and church choirs has been attended with success is attested by the glowing testimonials ho he has received from the ministers and music committees committe ee of the churches in which he be haa has carved served as choirmaster an kj a composer ho he Is self sell taught but professor gingrich has had the scientific training to make logical deductions from a comparativo study of the works of the masters to such purpose has ho he studied compo eillon and orchestration that se several verall of america americas 8 greatest composers and conductors have malsed his work and predicted that he would in time attain eminence in this difficult fiell of eude early in life professor gingrich evinced a strong artistic tendency A preliminary course in the public schools waa was fol followed loed by a thorough I 1 course in freehand drawing and perspective spec tive tise in the michigan state college and water tolor olor painting in the indiana institute and school of music ho lie possesses an eye for con tour color values and atmosphere in teaching the subject he gets buic results from pupils in drawing by unique methods that the children can easily follow in his hit public school methods pro gingrich combines that which Is pleasant and entertaining with that which Js Is educational thus seeking se k to arouse an interest in his subject before introducing the more theoretical phases |