Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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/VUDIO by Max U. Bildersee 'otpourri "Potpourri" is defined in Merriam/ebster as 'a mixture' and indeed lis describes the broad variety of inructional audio materials available (J the Spoken Arts label. The library f Spoken Arts extends into the areas literature and art, into poetry and rama, into folk songs, folk tales and ersonalities. In the latter category there are ;cordings by Brendan Behan who has een so frequently in recent headlines, this the eminent Irish author reiiles the hsteners with a selection of ish folk songs and his own inimit3le commentary not only about the mgs but about the Irish people and leir way of life. His Irish Folk Songs 'id Ballads (Spoken Arts 760) is inresting not only for its content but so for the picture of himself drawn y Brendan Behan through this per)miance. Scholarly, strikingly original, and (tally different in that it approaches purely visual subject without visual iplementation is Invitation to Art Jpoken Arts 763). And yet it offers iformation which can help the neolyte and uninitiate in understanding id appreciating visual arts. Brian iTDoherty, poet, painter and art critic, as appointed a Research Fellow in Iducation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and this brought him into intact with TV as a medium of com:unication. In the recording, Mr. I'Doherty invites the listener to join in creating a personal framework which art can be correlated so that becomes meaningful to the individil. This is not a glossary of terms a series of definitions but rather exploration of speaker and listener igether into the realm of art in which ich subjects as line, emphasis, dark id hght, contrast, brilliance and a ealth of other everyday art terms are formally discussed. This is a recordig which may well find its place in struction in basic art classes both high school and college. And, of )urse, it may be very popular as a irt of a library's circulating collecon. The Spoken Arts (95 Valley Road, ew Rochelle, N. Y.) collection can3t be summarized in a few words iier than to say that a consistently igh level of artistic presentation is maintained in a variety of areas. Some of the recordings available include Golden Treasury of De Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud (Spoken Arts 764) which is a reading, in French, of representative work of these poets; and by comparison in language, Abba Eban who served as Ambassador from Israel to the United States for almost ten years, reads from the Psalms and Ecclesiastes in both English and Hebrew. This recording demonstrates not only the musical quality of Mr. Eban's voice but also the lyric quaUty of both the English translations and the Hebrew. Both of these recordings have application potential in appropriate language and literature classes on the secondary and college levels. Did we say poetry? There is The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Spoken Arts 761) read by Nancy Wickwire; The Story of Ossian (Spoken Arts 755) read by John Masefield, and T. S. Eliot reading his Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little adding on Spoken Arts #765. This hasty summary of recent releases cannot begin to describe the broad catalogue earlier indicated. There are recordings of interest to modem literature and theatre students performed by such well-known persons as Arthur Miller, J. B. Priestly, Marc Blitzstein, John van Druten, Paul Green, Erskine Caldwell and others, much poetry, and recordings exploring other aspects of aural communication. Dr. Arthur Luce Klein, president of Spoken Arts. At the 'other end' of schooling experience, but certainly not at the 'other end' of recording quality, there are many recordings for the younger set. Adventures in Music (RCA Victor LE 1002) is designed to help younger children discover the beauty and grace of superior musical presentation. On this single record there are excerpts from carefully selected compositions by Debussy, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Elgar, Herbert, Copland, Bach and other well-known composers. The selections are rhythmic and tuneful and will appeal to young listeners to whom fine music is being carefully introduced. With the recording (performed by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Howard Mitchell) is a very useful guide prepared for teacher use by Gladys and Eleanor Tipton. Still in the lower grades, lend an ear to three new editions in the Read Me a Story series produced by Weston Woods Studios, Inc., of Weston, Connecticut. There are four stories (two /JuJio CARDALOG Record Reviews on Cards 903 INDIVIDUAL CROSS-INDEXED CARDS ALREADY ISSUED! SUBSCRIBE NOW $25.00 a year Audio CARDALOG Box 1771, Albany 1, New York A WORLD OF SOUND ON FILE DUCATIOINAL ScREEN AND AUDIOVISUAL GuiDE — JUNE, 1960 293