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Show STANDARD OIL CO. WILL BROADCAST MUSICAL LECTURES A unique plan in broadcasting, comprising com-prising the first great constructive use of the radio for educational purposes, pur-poses, has been adopted by the Standard Stan-dard Oil Company of California. Be-ginnig Be-ginnig October 18, the Standard Oil Company will broadcast every Thursday Thurs-day evening a musical lecture intended intend-ed primarily for the schools of the western area. Each Thursday evening eve-ning the Standard Symphony orchestra orches-tra will play for an hour. Hitherto the orchestra has played on Sunday evenings. The morning lecture will describe the compositions to be played play-ed in the evening. The composers will be discussed, and students will be told in detail, with illustration by instrumentalists, of what the composer com-poser tries to achieve, and how he does it. The lectures will be considerably con-siderably more than descriptive in that the principles and technicalities of music will be fully developed. By this plan it will be possible to give a course in musical education unobtainable unob-tainable by schools in any other way. A course of 36 lectures has been developed by Arthur S. Garbett of the National Broadcasting Company, a noted musical expert. The course is divided into six main sections American music, Austro-German, Russian, Rus-sian, Scandinavian and Polish; French and Italian; operatic influences and Romantic 19th century musical developments. |