Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-17
The Cincinnati Musical College.

The Cincinnati correspondent of the New
York Tribune, writing on the ninth, says:
The college of music Of Cincinnati Is rapid
ly reaching that stage of its existence IN
which it may be truly said to have thrown off
its swaddling -clothes. Its growth has been
so rapid as to surprise some Of its most san
guine progenitors, and there has accompanied
this growth a solidity-6nancially speaking
very satisfactory to those gentlemen who have
stood sponsors to the infant The chamber
concerts, that are to be distinguishing fea-
ture of the enterprise, promise to be very sue
cessful. Mr.. Netf, the treasurer, informed
me that the subscriptions, the first day they
were opened to the public, reached nearly six
thousand dollars. | don't doubt that Mr..
Thomas's salary and all the expenses of the
orchestra will be betrayed from this fund,
without the necessity OF using any of the col
lege funds proper for this purpose. There
will be twelve of these concerts during the
season, and upon each occasion a rehearsal of
the concert will be given In the afternoon of
the day previous to the one announced for the
concert in which every number will be rem
dered as completely as at the following con-
cert. This arrangement Is intended for the
accommodation of those lovers of music re-
siding in the suburbs, and cities like
| Dayton and Hamilton, who would be able to
| attend the evening entertainments only at
| great inconvenience. The subscription price
for all the concerts and rehearsals is placed at
| twelve dollars, which is certainly reasonable.
understand that there were a large number
| of single tickets sold at the concert Thursday
night. If this continues the success of all the
plans would be assured. The audience
| Thursday night was estimated at from two
| thousand to twenty-five hundred people-a
number that would crowd Pixies operahouse
! inconvenienty-but in the vast auditorium
of the music nall seemed to be merely mod
erately large audience. Miss Cary S appear
ance IN opera the same evening doubtless
| drew away many persons. The managers OF
these concerts have appointed two intermis
| sions of at least fifteen minutes each during
the programme, which will no doubt be i'm
| proved by the audience for social purposes
| There are said to be only four of the men
| whom Thomas brought from New York now
| in the orchestra. Thomas has succeeded In the
undertaking that has heretofore been consid-
| cred hopeless, that is in harmonizing our many
| German instrumentalists and uniting them
In the present orchestra. Colonel Nichols
two hundred pupils had been already en-
rolled in the college at an average fee of one
hundred dollars each. This income, with
proceeds from concert ticket sales, will give
| twenty-five thousand or thirty thousand dol
| lars, and that amount being assured there
| will be no deficiency at the end of the ses-
| sion. Pupils are coming IN constantly. Mr..
! Netf showed me pile of letters he had re-
| ceived from all points of the compass making
| inquiry as to terms, hours of study, boarding,
| etc. | examined two or three-onc from
| Minnesota, another from Pennsylvania-all
of the same tenor, indicative of the wide
spread interest that is taken in this enter
| prise.