The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-15 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE ROYAL OOLLEOE OF MUSIC.

SPEE3H BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.
On Monday afternoon the Prince of Walee, as
President of the Royal C ilkge of Music, formal),
oiwinel that itatitutiort, which now has a home in
Kensington Gore, present. I by Sir Cbarl.• Freake,
ant better known to the preeent time aa the Nationdi
Trainiag School of Mudic, now merged in the Boys'
'ollege. Tee circa .ay took place in the corridor on
the sec .nd floor of the building. Amongst the large
company gathered here were the Archbidhop of
Costerbtry, the L rd Mayor, Sir John. Benedict, Mr.
Artbur Sadism!), Lady Poikeetone, the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, Sir H. Thrum, Mr. S. Motley, M.P., and
Mr. Charles Halle
At a few minutes after 12 o'clock the Prince and
Priem.. of Wales, trigetner wi h the Priacem Albert
Vat and (1.wife .1 Wale,, the Duke and Dachas*
of Rdinbureh. sad Princess Chiistien, -.trended by
their nip-dive mires, arrived at the entrance to the
College. Here their R vol Highnesses were received
by the Duke of weardninater, L ird Charles Bruce,
M.P.. Sir Richard Wallace. M.P., and in John Rode
(trusteed), Mr. Gladatoos, Dr. George Grove, the
Director, and Mr. Charles Morley, the honorary
secretary, and conducted at mice to the mats prepared
in the c rridor on the ercond fi or. When the Royal
party had taken their placed, the Archbishop of
Canterbury offered up prayer for the success of the
teat Dillon.
Dr Grove having rend an address giving a history of
the movement from which the re a liege ha. sprung,
The Prince. of Wales, wb ea tieing wee received with
chteriar, in replyi..g. t:lay al mymil .1 this, the
6r4 public opp .r.unity th tt be. off red limit, of
expreeeing the deep personal gretification I feel at the
man mr In which the country has replied to my appeal
for all in establishing the college. I owe a debt of
gretitude to the Mayor. throughout the kingdom for
the valuable aid they have aff eded by granting
facilities for holding local examinations emential to the
proper selection of scholars. I am conscious that I
may be thought to have taken • bold step in beginning
sou great an enterprise, with only the re ources at
leseent at my command. But I am sanguine enough
to Isiah hat ti example net during the last year by
corporate bodies, representatives of the colonies,
trivets donors, and the general public will be followed
in ensuing years. Ours is an institution which admits
of alas sit indefinite extension, for who asholard
ship is loan led. we know now that we shall find •
deeervlog candidate to hold it. Let as. now pees to an
acemot of what has t ten actually accomplish. I.. Fifty
scholarships have been edtablimbed, of which 25 confer
• free educatioa In inu-ic, and 25 provide not only •
free education bat al-o a maintenance for the scholars.
Of theists sabol;rehips half are held by boys and half by
girls. I °beerye with pleasure tbatthe various districts
from which the scholms are drawn indicate the wide-
spread dietribution of a taste for music, and an
adequate culdration .1 music thereabout the United
Kingdom, Leal in, with it, vaet population. sends only
twelve out if the 50. The remaining 38 comes as
fodowe : —Twenty-eight from 14 tiff-remit counties
in Eneand, two from Scotland, six from Ireland,
one from Wake, and one from Jersey. The
occopaii..ne of the scholars are as embus as the places
fr..m which they come. I tad thdt a mill-girl, the
deoghter of a briakinaker, and the son of a
blackrmith, take high pieces In singing, and the
son of a farm labourer in violin playing. The
capacity of these caadidaies has been tented by an
elimination of unusual severity. Each of these
mit dare who returns to his native place
furnished with the highest instruction In music will
form a micro from which good musical education will
spread around ' • while those who obtain musical
engageassets alsewhere will stimulate and sac torso by
theit success the cultivation of music in the place
whence they have come. Surely, the?, it is not too

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