MacPhail College of Music - Coda Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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11:::::11::::..111,1311:1:1::::.11::::::::2.::::::::::.::.z::::.:,::: ...,.,., wwwv---44NNN .... .... ,... .,.. ,....,,,.....,.,. .... ,,,,...,.,.,,.,. ..,. ,,,., ,.,. ,,.., ,,,,,,,,,,,,,.4,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, WILMA ANDERSON GILMAN is too well known among music lovers of the northwest to need intro- duction. Her two appearances as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra have placed her among the leading musicians of the state. After four years of study in Brussels, where she became accom- panist for the advanced students of Ysaye, Mrs. Gil- man toured the United States with great success. As a teacher, she has shown herself especially giftedg her clear logical method of presenting her ideas helping her pupils to get rapid results. ELLA RICHARDS, the well known pianist, received her earliest training in her native city. Later she spent some time studying under able instructors in New York and then for a year and a half was a pupil of Leschetizky in Vienna, at a time when the class numbered among its members such great artists as Gabrilowitsch, Goodson and Hamburg. XVhile devot- ing a great part of her time to teaching, in which pro- fession she has been eminently successful, Miss Rich- ards has appeared continually in public in concert work, receiving great praise for her facile technic and scholarship interpretations. G. A. THORNTON, who has been head of the piano and theory departments of Hamline University for many years, is now available for private instruction in piano and organ at the MacPhail School. He holds the Certificate of the Royal Academy of Music of England and his education places him among the most scholarly musicians of the country. at f'LC..- Cs 6499-vw 5 V... We... -f fii-t ---1-11 Wrrri-'iris ff , jfriitfr ' ,-'L -'Z 4 CARL G. BERGG N has formulated a plan where- I C' by it is possible to a i musical--pehrasesf irrsnteyadwof,byindividual.units.or notes. In his teach- ing the material used is thoroughly analyzed so that the student knows by glancing at the printed page in which direction and on what keys the fingers ought to travel according to scientific forms of construction given in a simple and logical way. Those who have come under Mr. Berggren's instruction find that his well thought out method of teaching considerably modifies technical difficulties and shortens the time necessary in acquiring good technic. He has estab- lished himself in Minneapolis as a musician of excep- tional ability.

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MACPHAIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC EDWINA WAINMAN has had unusual advantages for study, both in Minneapolis and Chicago. A pupil of Herman Emil Zoch, she later studied under Carol Robinson, the brilliant concert pianist, and assistant to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. She has also studied organ under Walter Keller and Edwin Arthur Krafft. Miss Wainman teaches the Progressive Series of piano lessons and during her ten years of teaching in Min- neapolis she has built up a large following who bear testimony to her splendid teaching ability. She is organist of Wesley M. Church. CARL A. JENSEN has had twenty years teaching ex perience in the Twin Cities, giving him an unusual ad- vantage in his work. He aims to analyze each pupil and is able to overcome faults and give his pupils a solid foundation according to the principles of the Progressive Series of piano instruction as outlined by Leopold Go- dowsky. Mr. Jensen is organist and director of Plym- outh Congregational Church in St. Paul. He has had sound training in the theory of music JOHN JACOB BECK is one of the most popular teach- ers on the MacPhail faculty. His earnestness and line musicianship have impressed his followers and he has appeared with splendid success upon recital programs in Minneapolis and other cities of the northwest, His studies were pursued under Moritz Mayer Mahr and Klara Kuske in Berlin. He is the accomplished accom- panist of the Apollo Club and organist of the pro-Cathe- dral. MRS. GUSTAV SCHOETTLE is widely and tax orably known as a teacher of children. She has made a spec- ialty of training younger pupils and has met with re- markable success. Her studies have brought her under the tutelage of such masters as Ella Backus Behr, Mr. Carl Busch and her husband, Gustav Schoettle. Her teaching ability is demonstrated in a convincing man- ner by the playing of her two children, Elmer and Louise, aged seven and nine, who have appeared in public on numerous occasions, playing compositions by the great masters.