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Show Harmony MUSIC SCHOOL FORSO. UTAH Southern Branch Aggy at Cedar City Will Foster It FRED C. GRAHAM AND EDUCATIONAL EDUCA-TIONAL AND CIVIC LEADERS BACK OF IT The much talked of and promised school of music for Southern Utah now seems to be an assured fact. Fred C. Graham of Salt Lake City has been in Cedar City during the past few days working on the proposition propo-sition and from the backing and encouragement en-couragement received, those behind the movement feel that the plan will be worked out and carried to a successful suc-cessful conclusion. Leaders in educational edu-cational matters, civic, church and commercial organizations are back of the proposition. Among those who have become interested in the movement to give the southern section sec-tion of the state opportunity in the study and enjoyment of music during dur-ing the coming summer are U. T. Jones, chairman of the Iron county school board; Professor Roy F. Homer, Ho-mer, President of the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural College; Dr. M. J. MeFar-land, MeFar-land, President of the Cedar Commercial Com-mercial Club; Dr. A. N. Leonard, L. John Nuttall, Superintendent of Schools; R. L. Jones, architect and business man; J. P. Fuller, banker; W. H. Leigh, merchant; Harry H. Lunt and several others. It is proposed to have the Commercial Com-mercial Club act in the capacity of promoting the school in the way of advertising and boosting in the various vari-ous communities of the southern Utah section. Arrangements will be made for rooming and boarding accommodations for the students from outlying districts, through the secretary of the Cedar Commercial Club. A feature of the enterprise will be chorus and orchestra work, also a band for the summer organized organ-ized by the music school which shall be a permanent fixture for Cedar City. Concerts, lectures, entertainments, entertain-ments, operas and out-door musical events will be regularly conducted by the school. Many of such events will be given free to the public, es pecially those in which the students will take part. As soon as a student is ready for public appearance she or he will be presented on concert programs pro-grams given by the members of the faculty and students. As head of the yocal department. Hugh W. Dougall will be in charge. Mr. Dougall has been during the past ten years one of the most successful suc-cessful vocal teachers in Utah. His students have received professional recognition before the musical critics crit-ics in both Salt Lake and other important im-portant large cities. He is a pupil of Bicknell Young, Chicago; John Dennis Den-nis Mehan, New York City; Alexander Alexan-der Heineman, Berlin, and Jacques Douhy, Paris, France. His pupils, Edna Evans, Jack Summerhays. Hazel Ha-zel Barnes and Lou Halsett, won all of the first prizes in 1908 in the great Welsh Eisteddfodd. held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Besides being one of Salt Lake's leading concert, con-cert, oratorio and opera singers he has acted as director with several of the church choirs of Salt Lake. He is at present In charge of the music work in the Salt Lake City public schools, outlining and directing the singing of twenty-five thousand boys and girls and some six hundred teachers. It is to be hoped that an arrangement may be made to give the teachers of the schools of southern south-ern Utah the benefit of Mr. Dougall's presence in Cedar during the summer sum-mer and have a special course given for them. Mr. Dougall will be assisted as-sisted in the vocal department by Evangeline Thomas, one of Salt Lake's leading contraltos, at present connected with the public schools, and one of the leading church singers. sing-ers. She appeared with the Emma Lucy Gates Opera Co. both seasons, singing opposite Miss Gates in "Tra-vatia" "Tra-vatia" and "Faust." winning great success. The piano department will he In charge of Gustave Sodorlund. who studied in Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmar, and New York City with Reuterborg, R. Anderson, Arthur Al-lin, Al-lin, E. van Dooten, Alberto Jonas, and E. Akerberg. " He was selected by Royalty as the teacher for two and one-half years of Princess Sophie Frijs of Frijsenborg, Denmark. He was director of the Conservatory of Music at Valparaiso, Chili, for four years. He is a teacher of the Leopold Leo-pold Godowsky series of progressive piano studies. Dorret Evans-Wool-ley will be the other piano teacher. She is a student of Spencer Clawson, Jr.; Arthur Shepherd, now of Boston, Bos-ton, and Madam Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, of Chicago.- She toured for several seasons, with success, under the Chicago Lyceum Bureau. She has appeared in Salt Lake in concert on several occasions and is considered consider-ed one of the leading concert pianists of the West. The violin, orchestra and band departments will be in charge of Kenneth Roylance, a grad uate of the B. Y. U., Provo; a member mem-ber of the Gudmansen's string quartet, quar-tet, a pupil of Willard Weihe and a successful orchestra and band director. di-rector. Mr. Roylance will be greatly great-ly appreciated in Cedar for the help he will be, through the music school, of organizing a band and orchestra. Mr. Graham, who will have direct charge of the Southern Utah School of Music, will leave today or tomorrow tomor-row for Salt Lake, but expects to return re-turn early next month to list the stu-"j dents, examine them as to their prcs- j ent knowledge and learning of music j and allot them time for lessons. An- j nouncement will be made later ad-j vising those who intend taking this instruction of the time when they j can meet Mr. Graham in Cedar City for this purpose. For those with whom it is impossible to make a special trip to Cedar before the term begins, certain questions may be answered through the mail. |