NAEB Newsletter (July 1957)

the stations. If you feel you have been wronged when you receive your statement, please feel free to tell us so, and we’ll try to trace the source of our differences. INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL —Keith Engar The Annual Conference of the International Music Council was held May 22 to 25 in Paris at UNESCO^ The purpose of the IMC is to promote the broadcast¬ ing of contemporary music in many countries. The major motive is to provide encouragement for young talent by giving it a hearing on several broadcasting systems through major, live concerts. Fourteen na¬ tions sent delegates representing major radio organ¬ izations. With the able assistance of Mr. Noel Lee, a young composer touring Europe, and qualified to pass on technical musical problems, I represented the NAEB. The conference was divided into two parts called “ Selection 5 and “Tribune ” “Selection” was a com¬ petition to choose the best contemporary symphonic, medium ensemble and chamber work broadcast dur¬ ing the preceding year. Each country was entitled to submit one work in each category and the delegates acted as jury. According to IMC rules, the three pieces chosen were to have been given a major “live” broadcast concert in each country during the coming year, but no work in any category received the es¬ sential two-thirds majority vote, so the IMC had to be content with recommending that the works be per¬ formed. “Tribune” was designed to give young composers an opportunity to be performed in several countries. Each delegation was entitled to submit scores of five works placed within the three categories (symphonic, medium ensemble and chamber). The delegation ex¬ amined the scores, then arranged submissions into eleven concert programs in a concert for broadcast, or as an alternative, choose selected works from among the total list for the equivalent of two con¬ certs. IMC rules require that all music should be per¬ formed “live,” and whenever possible, in public con¬ certs introduced by a spoken commentary. However, it is permissible to broadcast a recording of the entire concert. Details of the compositions will be available shortly from the IMC. Since this is the NAEB’s first year, the project needs to be explored very carefully. Obviously there is a great promise in it. Total AM stations - 3065 (includesQ36 non-commercial) Total FM stations - 668 (includes f36 non-commercial) Total TV stations - 543 (includes 24 non-commercial) NEWS FROM MEMBERS GENERAL Three officials from neighboring states recently visited the Alabama ETV Network in Birmingham to conduct studies in educational television. They are Hill Bermont, production manager of the University of Georgia 3-million-dollar Kellogg Center for Continuing Adult Education; Mrs. Wanda John¬ ston, supervisor of audio-visual education of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Board of Education for City Schools, and from the same Board, Mrs. Penny Wind¬ ham, director of radio education broadcasting in¬ struction and city-owned FM station. Mr. Bermont commended those Alabama officials who “had the foresight and initiative to design a net¬ work for ETV across the state as soon as the FCC made the channels available.” He also expressed confidence that the pattern set by Alabama will be followed throughout the nation. ► The Metropolitan Educational Television Assn, in New York City reports the receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Fund for Adult Education. The money was given for the purchase of TV equipment for META’s production center now under construc¬ tion in the Carnegie Endowment Building. The grant has a provision whereby META can qualify for an additional $50,000 if it proceeds to¬ ward an on-the-air operation. ► The Abilene Christian College in Texas has just completed its 17th consecutive year of broadcasting activity, according to Dr. Lowell G. Perry, radio di¬ rector of the College. Among the accomplishments mentioned in his cumulative four-year Report for 1953 through 1957, Dr. Perry announced the providing of educational programs to schools and communities, the placement of students in the radio industry and plans for the addition of TV. PERSONNEL ► Two prominent men in the radio-TV field received professorships at the Michigan State University’s De¬ partment of Speech. They are Walter B. Emery, general consultant for the Joint Council on Educational Television and J. Colby Lewis III, production manager of WTTW- TV in Chicago. Their appointments will take effect August 1 and September 1 respectively. TEACHING BY TV To determine whether typing can be taught as ef¬ fectively on TV as in the classroom, the Indiana Uni¬ versity in Bloomington, Ind., has begun an eight-Aveek typing course on WTTV (Channel 4). The course is JULY, 1957 5