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

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Three Pipe Organs Are Maintained for Practice Purposes Music Students and Art Lovers Tour to Europe ' d d teachers Graduates and post graduates of the MacPhail btu ents an , g C . . - School of Music will be interested to know of a special tour planned by Mme. Bailey-Apfelbeck for summer vacation months of 1925, visiting principal music and art centers of Europe, It will serve as a Students' Extension V . . 7. . d Course and a Post-graduate Course for which credits will be given an special diplomas awarded by the MacPhail School of Music. This tour will be under the joint arrangement of the Cunard Line and the Schilling Tours and will form an unique opportunity for music students, art lovers and general tourists to visit London, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Dres- den, Hamburg, Munich, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Vienna, Salzburg, Lucern, Interlaken Zurich Geneva, Milan. Yenice. Florence, Rome, Naples, Brussels, ' ' ' ll l , , Antwerp. Amsterdam and the Hague under experienced and cultuiec ear er- ship.

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