Monday, March 3, 1997
'U.S. News' puts
UC graduate music program
near top of scale
College-Conservatory comes in No. 6,
based on quality of faculty, students
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The University of Cincinnati has the nation's sixth best graduate music program, according to U.S. News & World Report.
UC's College-Conservatory of Music was chosen because of its scholarship, curriculum and the quality of faculty and graduate students - especially in its opera/voice and conducting specialties, spokeswoman Amber Rice said.
The program had its largest enrollment last fall, with 1,316 total students, including about 640 graduate students, said Warren George, CCM's associate dean for academic affairs.
''CCM is certainly becoming known not only nationwide but also internationally as one of the leading music schools,'' Mr. George said, noting that CCM has 132 international students from 35 countries.
The magazine considered admissions selectivity, placement success, reputation, faculty resources and research when ranking schools for its eighth annual graduate school issue.
The graduate school ranking was one of several ''best'' lists the magazine publishes annually, including best colleges, hospitals, travel destinations and mutual funds, Ms. Rice said.
Other nearby graduate schools won high ratings, including:
Ohio State University, for veterinary, pharmacy, primary medical care, nursing, health services, education, business, engineering, fine arts, music and law.
Indiana University at Bloomington, for education, business, law, fine arts and music.
Case Western Reserve University, for nursing, medicine, business and law.
Oberlin College Conservatory, for music.
Cleveland Institute of Music, for music.
University of Kentucky, for pharmacy.
U.S. News' ''1997 America's Best Graduate Schools'' issue will hit newsstands today.
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College-
Conservatory of Music
Here's a look at UC's CCM program:
Total enrollment: 1,316.
Degrees: Accompanying, artist diploma (brass, harpsichord, opera, percussion, piano, strings, woodwinds), arts administration, bassoon, clarinet, classical guitar, composition, conducting-choral, conducting-orchestral, conducting-wind, double bass, euphonium, flute, harp, harpsichord, horn, music education, music history, oboe, organ, percussion, piano, saxophone, theater design and production, theater direction, theater performance, theory, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin, violoncello, voice and woodwinds.
Famous alumni: International opera diva Kathleen Battle; soprano Pamela Myers, a Tony Award-nominated actress; Earl Hamner Jr., a television writer who created The Waltons; conductor Carmon DeLeone, the Cincinnati Ballet's music director; jazz trumpeter Al Hirt; pianist Anton Nel; and composer Albert Hague, who wrote the songs for How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Founded: Clara Baur, a young piano and voice teacher from Germany, created the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 130 years ago. Eleven years later, the city's cultural leaders started the College of Music. The two merged in 1955, and CCM became part of UC in 1962.
Source: University of Cincinnati
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