The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, associated with a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.
Noted alumni include cancer researcher Aldred Scott Warthin, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, trumpeter Al Hirt, jazz pianist Pat Moran McCoy, and composers Harold Morris, Conlon Nancarrow, and Margaret McClure Stitt.
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History
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was founded by Clara Baur in 1867. It was the first music school in Cincinnati and was a conservatory, associated with a girls' finishing school. On June 10, 1924, Burnet Corwin Tuthill, general manager of the conservatory, instigated a meeting for the formation of the National Association of Schools of Music together with five other institutions: the American Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, the Louisville Conservatory of Music, the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and the Walcott Conservatory of Music.
It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.
Student activities
The conservatory had a chapter of Sigma Iota Chi literary sorority from 1905 to 1915.
Notable people
Alumni
Lou Busch, record producer, musician and songwriter
Tennessee Ernie Ford (1939), singer and television personality
Corinne Stocker Horton, elocutionist, journalist, and newspaper editor
Pat Moran McCoy, jazz pianist
Harold Morris, pianist, composer, and educator
Conlon Nancarrow, composer
Carrie Obendorfer Simon, communal leader
Margaret McClure Stitt, dramatist
Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States
Emma Heckle, professor of voice (also alumni), and for part of the time co-director of the conservatory
James G. Heller, professor of musicology