sington, North Braddock, Pitcairn, Sewickley, Swissvale, 
Tarentum, and Wilkinsburg, where four studios are necessary 
to meet the growing response to well supervised music instrue- 
tion. Within the city proper there are, besides the main 
school, studios at Squirrel Hill, Homewood, two at East 
Liberty, and two on the North Side, making it possible for 
children in these sections of the city to have the highest type 
of music instruction without the loss of time or the incon- 
venience and danger of traveling about the crowded city. 
The Institute offers courses from the very beginning to 
the highest graded courses leading to graduation. Post 
graduate work is done here by many students from other 
schools. The aim of the Institute is to provide a complete 
musical education for its pupils, not merely instruction that 
leads to technical proficiency. To this end the Institute has 
two classes of students, regular and special. The former take 
the principal and all secondary studies with the required 
classes, while the special pupils take only one or more 
branches, such as piano, voice, violin or organ. An important 
feature is the supervision of the regular work of all pupils 
through special hearings by the directors or heads of the 
departments. For many years the directors have put special 
care and painstaking effort into developing better teaching 
and more rapid and thorough training for both children and 
adult beginners and those in the earlier grades and feel that 
they have been unusually successful in this department. 
Two of the outstanding developments sponsored by Pitts- 
burgh Musical Institute in this field are the Visuola, or 
visual method for either private or class teaching, and the 
Helen Curtis class system, as used in the best music schools 
in this country and many of the public schools. 
Many opportunities are given students for public appear- 
ances and in addition there are many faculty recitals pre- 
senting unusual programs. These recitals will pass a total of 
800 by the end of the school year 1927-28. Important features 
are the P. M. I. Chorus and Orchestra, both large organiza- 
tions and free to the students. Some of the recent out- 
standing performances by the chorus are “The Gondoliers,” 
by Gilbert and Sullivan; “Martha”, by Flotow (which was 
repeated two weeks after the first performance to accom-