MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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DIRECTOR HENRY WARD PEARSON Illinois conservatory of music The Illinois Conservatory of Music is one of the outstanding music schools in the middle-west. Henry Ward Pearson, the director, has gathered around him an excellent faculty of twenty-one members. Under his astute leadership the department is very active. An artist course, a series of faculty recitals and numerous recitals at which students appear form a very important part of the college calendar. The department is enjoying a steady growth, as attested by the increase in number of major students each year. The Music Department of Illinois College and the Music Department of Illinois Woman ' s College were consolidated in 1928, to form the present Illinois Conservatory of Music. twenty-four

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Illinois conservatory of music

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mu$ic facultii Henry Ward Pearson .... Music, Organ, Piano, Theory Potsdam State Normal School, A.B. New England Conservatory of Music, B. M. Private Pupil of William H. Sherwood, Leschetizky, J. Warren Andrews, Clarence Eddy Lulu D. Hay .... Piano, Theory Raamann-Valkmann Music School, Bavaria Pupil of Dr. S. A. Pierce, Victor Heinz Mrs. Marguerite Palmiter Forrest .... Voice Pupil of Francis Powers, Wilhelni Heinrich, Maester Georgis SuUi Mahala McGehee .... Piano, History of Music Chicago Musical College Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Pupil of Mme. Marguerite Melville Liszniewska Leopold Schwing, A.B. Mus. G Violin Ensemble Baldwin Wallace; Fonainbleau Conservatory, Paris Studied with Carl Flesch and Richard Hartzer, Berlin Joseph Eness .... Theory University of Wyoming, A. B. Olivet College, B.M. Cornell College American Conservatory of Music, Chicago Private Pupil of Louise Robyn and Adolf Weidig twenty-five