Founded in 1936, it's also one of the oldest. It was the first college program in the nation to offer a degree in radio, and was created at the College of Music to complement Cincinnati's strong radio presence. It soon became an important player in WLW radio broadcasts. Electronic media will now lead the school into the 21st century. All of CCM's performance venues are wired for sound and video.
Signals go to the master control room, and are distributed to editing and post-production suites.
Nobody can compete with anything like this, anywhere. A superb clarinetist who has already performed as a soloist with the CSO, he plays a few licks of Mozart in the November sun behind Memorial Hall. Once an old dorm, Memorial Hall is now a small city of studios and practice rooms that sing with the music of tubas, violins and budding opera stars. He knows his field is competitive. I have a strong interest in conducting.