Louisville Conservatory of Music - Crescendo Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Members: Martha Frances Brantley; Agnes Kastner; Evelyn Moser; Martha Nell Flynt, Recording Secretary; Helen Sicveking. Vice President; Thelma Minter Fahrenberg; Mary Grissom; Lucile Herget; Julia Strickler, Treasurer; Catherine Goodman; 1 Iclen Krieger, Presi¬ dent; Virginia Hatfield. Corresponding Secretary; Lillian Caddie; Elise Brach; Helen Leigh; Dorothy McQuiddy; Ollie Price Millett. Sigma Alpha lota Sigma Nu Chapter Coloratura Company, Member, Sigma Alpha Iota is classified as the oldest National Musical Soror¬ ity. It strives to pro¬ mote the musical pro¬ fession, and to inspire its members through close association with prominent artists, who are Honorary Members. Among them are Mine. Galli Curci, Myra Hess, and the much admired Mrs. Edward McDowell. Mine. Josephine Lucchesi, Soprano. San Carlo Opera First Chapter Honorary Sigma Nu Chaptei 1 o furnish seclusion and quiet for artists in their creative work, S. A. I. has a cottage in the McDowell colony at Petersborough, N. H. A biennial prize is offered at each Convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs for the best sacred anthem by an Amer¬ ican composer. Other scholarships and honors are also offered. An Endowment Fund for the aiding of students in the development of music in America has been created. Sigma Nu Chapter is the first Southern Chapter established.

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(Founded. November 13. 1903. Metropolitan College of Musie Cincinnati. Ohio.) M U PHI EPSILON is a national organization of profes¬ sional women musicians, teachers of music, and students of music who have made sufficient progress in their study of one of the major branches to be eligible to membership. The objects of the sorority are threefold: First, the devel¬ opment of American music; second, the promotion of lifelong love and friendship among the members; third, the advance- ment of the schools in which the forty-six (46) Chapters are located. r Mu Phi Epsilon-Mu Sigma Chapter NAT IONAL HONORARY MUSICAL SORORITY tude for her members, and maintains a fund for the assistance ol needy members. Many members of the sorority, who are dependent on themselves for support, have become ill and unable to work, and have been helped by this fund. Many students have been given the means to complete their musical education y i ni ■Members Fund. Money is now being raised for a Mu Phi Club House in New York City, which when opened, will provide an inexpensive home for girls from all parts of the country who are studying in New York. Here they will be in constant contact with Sisters who have reached their goal, who will not only be an inspiration, but a practical help in the securing of positions, and scholarships with famous teachers. There are many ways in which Mu Phi Epsilon strives to assist in the development of American music. Chiefly, by en¬ couraging the young women, who show talent and diligence in tie musical schools of the country to hitch their wagons to a star; and by developing the ambition of its members; by requir¬ ing a high grade of work from them; by inspiring, where she n ’ O, • r? ut -i? America to make of themselves real musicians. Mu I hi epsilon accomplishes much. The February Triangle”, which is the official publication of the Grand Chapter, gave a list of twenty-six compositions by members of Mu Phi Epsilon, which were published in 1925. These include chorus numbers, an operetta, songs, and piano and violin numbers. The Teachers ' Edition, Universal Series, published by Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, contains 300 unison and part songs with piano accompaniments by Beatrice Scott, Mu Xi Chapter, Chicago. The first attempts of almost all of these twenty-six American composers were in the annual Na¬ tional Composition Contest of Mu Phi Epsilon. The ways in which the sorority accomplishes her second object, the promotion of a lifelong friendship among her mem¬ bers are obvious. But she goes farther than that in her solici¬ 1 he National Endowment Fund, established in 1924, with $50,000 in 1928 as its goal, has already reached $14,508. The Nineteenth National Convention will be held in Ithaca, New York, June 22-25, inclusive, with Lambda Chap¬ ter as hostess. This convention is held biennially. Mu Sigma Chapter will send as its delegate Mrs. Minnie MurdofF Kimball, who recently came to the Conservatory fac¬ ulty from the De Pauw University School of Music, where she was head of the Piano Department. A yearly course of study is mapped out each fall by the Program Committee of each Chapter. The course of study for Mu Sigma Chapter for the current year is as follows: October. American Music: November, Study of Opera: December, Study of Opera; January, Louisville Composers; February, The Origin and Growth of Violin Music; March, The Origin and Growth of Piano Music; April, Russian Music.

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Phi Sigma Mu PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC PROFESSIONAL FRATERNITY Founded. Ohio Wesleyan University School of Music. December 11. Id24. Delta Chapter Installed in Louisville Conservatory of Music May I. 1026. OFFICERS Alice O. Linkenberg, President Dorothy Schnaus. Vice-President Mildred Lambert, Secretary Jane Jefi-reys, I ' reasurer MEMBERS Mrs. S. L. Beard Ruth Hampton Margaret Carson A