Music Department The Department of Music gives theoretical and practical instruction in musical subjects indispensable to the educated musician. The courses extend over four years, and include the following: sight singing (solfeggio), band instruments, history of music, voice culture, chorus work, harmony, violin, cello, piano. Faculty. Joseph Ballantyne For a number of years has been one of Ogden's leading musicians and teachers. In the study of vocal culture he has had as teachers some of the world's greatest masters, among them Oscar Saenger, New York; Herman Klein, London; Herbert W. Greene, New York; Wm. Shakespeare, London, and Charles Bowes, Paris. Mr. Ballantyne studied harmony counterpoint composition and orchestration in the National Conservatory of Music, New York, under the eminent Master Max Spicker. He is director of the famous Ogden Tabernacle choir. He also finished a course in sight singing and methods of teaching at the National Conservatory of Music. He has had fourteen years' experience in teaching the above subjects. Tracy Y. Cannon Has been one of Utah's best known music teachers since he began teaching the piano here. His musical education was obtained in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Berlin and Paris, where he studied under such famous musicians as Albert A. Stanley, Alberto Jonas and Alexander Guilmant and others. Mr. Cannon has taught in Ogden for a number of years, and has successfully presented many pupils in recitals. He is assistant organist of the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and director of the "Pioneer Stake Choisters' and Organists' Association." WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 61 Romania Hyde. Miss Hyde began her musical studies under Mr. George E. Skelton, one of Utah's noted violin instructors, after which she spent two and one-half years in hard study under Herr Issay Barmas of Berlin, one of Russia's greatest masters, and a violinist of international fame. She also studied with Leopold Lichtenberg of New York City. Miss Hyde won the gold medal at the Chautauqua of 1907, and at the National Eisteddfod of 1911, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has for the last ten years conducted most successfully several musical organizations, of which the Romania Hyde Quartette was acknowledged to be the leading ladies' string quartette in the Intermountain States, filling engagements for Chautauqua work in San Francisco, Clamath Falls in Oregon; also in Ogden. She had the distinction of appearing with the Royal Quartette in Cassel, Germany. And she also appeared in concert solo work under the direction of Prince Klan Kassie of Persia. Miss Hyde has been very successful as a teacher of the violin. Ernest W. Nichols For ten years has been the leader of the Weber Academy band and orchestra, during which time some of Ogden's best band leaders and musicians have received instruction at the Academy. He studied under Arthur Pryor, trombone and band master; under Stephen Porpori, clarinet; under Abram Levi, solo clarinetist of Sousa's band; he occupied first chair with Anthon Pedersen in the famous K. P. band. He was conductor of the Walla Walla Military band for seven years. He has been a teacher of band instruments for thirty years.