FROM GEOGRAPHY TO MUSIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 7

FROM GEOGRAPHY TO MUSIC

Comprehensive Series of Winter Course Talks

ITH the days drawing in -you know the conversational opening, don’t you? -the thoughts of the NBS staff, and, we hope, some listeners, are turning to the Winter Course talks at the YA stations. Plans are well forward. Geography will be one of the themes treated this year and it is specially topical in view of the fact that there is a noteworthy increase in public interest in the subject. The geography department of Canterbury University College has done much to educate people in the nature of geography and members of the staff have contributed largely to the Winter Course talks at 3YA. There is now a New Zealand Geographical Society, with branches in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Station 2YA is leading off this year with a series of talks on "The City of the Strait,’ which everybody should recognise as Wellington. These talks will open on Monday, April 9, with "Port Nicholson in 1840," by B. jy. Garnier. Then will follow, on April 16, "Land for Wellington," by Miss J. K. Finney; on April 23 Miss Finney will talk on "Food for Wellington"; and on April 30 B. J. Garnier will deal with "Political and Commercial Wellington." Three further talks will be

on "Industrial Wellington" and "Residential Wellington" (which should have its particular human interest) and "Wellington To-day and To-morrow." Later will come a series of talks by members of the staff of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on their work as applied to everyday life. The final series from 2YA >this winter will be by Professor Leslie Lipson, Professor of Political Science’ at ‘Victoria University College. Professor Lipson: will deal. with the evolution of British institutions and Britain’s contributions to the world, Station 3YA will begin its session on April 4 with a series of 15 talks by Professor Lipson on a subject he dealt with from 2YA three years ago. This will be a comprehensive survey of American history from the beginning up to America’s entry into the present war. Preparations are now being made for the opening of similar courses at 1YA and 4YA. Station 1YA’s series will be opened by Professor Keys, Professor of Modern Languages at Auckland, who will speak on "Music and Musicians in Literature." It will be interesting to see if Professor Keys has anything to say about the well-known fact that. there is no inevitable connection between music and poetry, since a number of poets have not only lacked musical appreciation but have had no ear for music at all. :