Transmission of Eductional Programmes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 24, 28 December 1928, Page 32

Transmission of Eductional Programmes

Important Developmen: 3 F oreshadowed | Bore in the Dominions and in i " eign countries. the B.B.C.’s ea: recognition of broadcasting as an 3° portant medium of education is dorsed, -as the following instan © show :- Australia Notes the Kent Report ' [ announcing the decision of the South Wales Broadcasting Cv pany to transmit half-hour broadca»! to schools every afternoon, the exp: ences and progress of the B.B.C. connection with educational transm. sions are commented upon and extra: quoted from the report of the Ke. Education Committee. ; State-owned Sets for Canadian Schoi: HE vision of radio in every sch: | of Canada was held out by * Provincial Secretary of Quebee in: recent speech. He prophesied as a.f: ture of future educational work State-owned receiving set in’ e school "with the bad jazz cut out" .: with regular concerts of the best mt: } Canadian stations have for some ‘ broadeast special transmissions * schools as can be seen from the ace« panying picture. Seow. :

U.S.A. Musie Lessons. DP=ETAILS of a plan by which © hopes to bring symphonic mr. to the school children of the | States have been worked out by ‘‘# Walter Damrosch, musical adviser 3 the National Broadcasting Compa . it is announced. By arrangement v ° the Radio Corporation of America h- 4 to broadeast forty-eight concerts, 4 first of which took place on October The R.C.A. Edueational Hour, as will be known, will be broadcast fr«,, the studios of the N.B.C, thro’ twenty-six stations. The concerts are to be in four ser" graded, according to the mental dev opment of children and young peo: from the third grade up to high seh: and eollege. The first series, for :) third and fourth grades, is desig: to appeal to the very young, and a: to show how music is linked up w the everyday things of life. : There is one entire programme * "Wairies in Music," another on "*: ture in Music," and still another hr. ed "Animals in Music." In other ° grammes Mr. Damrosech will bring | , the quality.of the four different var ties of instruments in the orches?: strings, wood wind, brass, and sion. A somewhat similar grouping of » jects appears in the series for Grad«" and 6 (standards 8 and 4), which gin on November 2.. Tha composi of chosen, however. are slightly. np: : difficult. and in place of "Fairies" :: finds "Fun in Music" and slightly nm emphasis placed on the emoticy quality, as, for. instance, in the *%, gramme on "Sorrow and Happiness.’ Se a ae