PUBLIC MUSIC LECTURES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 3

PUBLIC MUSIC LECTURES

Certain proposals for the furthering of music education in New Zealand will be made by Dr. Robert W. Yingling, a Fulbright lecturer in music at Canterbury! University College, in the last of a series of lunch-time lectures which he will give next month. There , will be five lectures in the series, and they will be held each week ofi Thursday, the first this Thursday. The title of the first lecture is “American Heard, of the American Herd.” Dr. Yingling, who is associate professor ,of music in the University of Connecticut, is attached to the music department of Canterbury University College this year. The lectures he will give are a continuation of the department’s lunch-time series. His field is music education and music leadership in the community. Dr. Yingling’s Jectures will describe the American musical scene as it exists tpday, the educative planning put into action. to v expand the use of music and its acceptance in general, and the programme which educational institutions follow in the training of professional musicians. Dr. Yingling will draw a number of parallels between musical progress in America and in New Zealand.